(November 23, 2010 at 2:41 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(November 23, 2010 at 1:14 pm)lrh9 Wrote: My position still stands.
Thats only coz you didnt live through the reality of it.
In england we were only 4 minutes away from the detection of launches to them landing.
As I live near a lot of military bases my chance of continued living would have been zero.
You think your scared of a little bomb from al qaeda, try being scared of a multi megaton nuclear devise landing in your garden.
It was like two men with guns with hair triggers pointed at each others heads for decades.
Could've ended any second in mass death but somehow didnt.
Technically, it can still happen, so we certainly aren't out of the woods. In fact, my feeling, and it is just a feeling, is that we are in more peril today than we were then, but it isn't because of MAD. It is because of declining economies, aging stockpiles, rogue governments, and serious security problems (such as the government computer breeches by the Chinese). Indeed, I think we are in more peril today than ever before.
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"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
