Supposedly doing it this way results in fewer casualties than doing it some other way, but we have no way of knowing that, one way or the other. And if their assumptions, models and calculations have any flaws, then they don't know either.
Heh, I can't just rattle this stuff off - I just reread this (2nd time). I bookmarked several quotes that make a lot of sense with various things going on now as I went. I've actually read little of his work (like none of the Lazarus Long books or whatnot for example, though I do have saved, somewhere, the apparent recommended reading order for the various series etc).
When you said bunker. You reminded me. The military sent a platoon to a norad bunker at the beginning of the coof did they not? What happened with that
Supposedly doing it this way results in fewer casualties than doing it some other way, but we have no way of knowing that, one way or the other. And if their assumptions, models and calculations have any flaws, then they don't know either.
"Easier to get people to hate than to get them to love." - Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Heh, I can't just rattle this stuff off - I just reread this (2nd time). I bookmarked several quotes that make a lot of sense with various things going on now as I went. I've actually read little of his work (like none of the Lazarus Long books or whatnot for example, though I do have saved, somewhere, the apparent recommended reading order for the various series etc).
When you said bunker. You reminded me. The military sent a platoon to a norad bunker at the beginning of the coof did they not? What happened with that