I believe in the power of concerted thought by masses of people. I see this as the origin of our current problems as masses of people pursued immature wishes for ever more material security without concern for the consequences of this pursuit. Hence, I sincerely wish for such a limited use of nuclear weapons in the hope that it will hit the cultural reset button and allow for a better future for our kind.

I also, very unscientifically (though there has been some work on this), believe that if enough people wish hard enough that this very realistic possible outcome can be forced into reality. Tinkerbell can be saved. Therefore I continue to invite people to join me in visualizing such a limited high altitude nuclear event.

I'm gloriously ignorant of everything about high-altitude nuclear explosions except what I've read on the dialogue pages, and I'm not fascinated enough to do any in-depth reading or even skimming on the science, because, well, science is over my head. But as laid out by Doc Herb, explosions in orbit will not directly harm people, or life of any kind, so it's not a daydream of murder, is it?

And it is just a daydream. It's intriguing as daydreams go, but nobody's lobbying the President of France or Israel to actually do this. I don't think it's Doc's intent to put together a worldwide ad campaign for high-altitude nuclear explosions... or maybe I'm wrong about that?

     

     

Do let me know, please, whether your complaints get any response.

Excellent. I imagine that the whole incident was just honest ignorance on the staffer's part, and there's no better antidote for ignorance than facts presented plainly.

I don't know anything about present-day civics in school except what I've heard about it on talk radio, but what I've heard is that civics has been eliminated. That it's something kids' parents and grandparents studied in school, but it's not taught any more.

     

I am saddened to learn that future imports of my much loved three wheel truck are being blocked by our ever criminal federal executive branch of government. Bajaj 3-Wheeler is now off the US market Whatever excuses the government is selling for their decision have to be a cover for preventing the importation of high mileage, low cost transportation. I was hoping to convince people to buy one themselves. Eighty miles to the gallon with a top speed of forty miles per hour and a one ton cargo capacity would have been an easy sell. But then our government seems to be in collusion with

Sure does look like a fun mode of transport...

Looks like a pick-up to me, so you must be a real man. Me, I take the bus, but dang me, if I had to drive I'd want something economical like that.

     

     

He's lost his bearings!

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Then you must be a very, very intelligent person. :)