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From: Jayme Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, February 26, 2001 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Pearl Harbor??
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>>>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.
>
Yeah, it does look like his reference was not to the U.S. but to Japan -- I
had it completely backwards. Sorry. But the Japanese are unquestionably a
lot more on the ball than the U.S. in working seriously on completely
unmanned rendezvous and docking before we've even gotten around to it. (And
the Russians, of course, have been routinely doing it for 34 years!)
Bruce Moomaw
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