>>Is anyone else a tad bit tickled over the whole unmanned thing from the
>>people who are most remembered for the exact opposite tactic on Pearl
>>Harbor for a much less valuable cause?
>
>I don't quite get this. Are you saying that the U.S. thought in the Forties
>that the ships on Pearl Harbor should somehow be unmanned? And are you
>saying that winning World War II was a "much less valuable cause" than
>immediately establishing whether there's life on Mars? If the Allies had
>lost World War II, it can be argued that there wouldn't have been much
>intelligent life on EARTH.
I *think* the reference here is to kamikaze attacks. Which, of course, didn't begin
until several years *after* Pearl Harbor, once the Imperial navy was getting its ass
severely kicked. But I could be wrong.
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
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