[TML] Primitive starships

[Richard Aiken]

On 9/14/07, James Ramsay <quakers_united at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> If you are in orbit you don't need nukes to take out people. Also if you
> could possibly build an Orion drive you can make ICBM's. People are
> going to be far more worried about accidents then malice (as anyone who
> could do Orion, could wipe out most of the rest of the world at a whim
> anyway).

You know that.  I know that.  The rest of the TML knows that.

Guy-In-The-Street doesn't.  All he knows is that nukes are Capital-B
Bad things.  Nukes in orbit are Really Bad things.

Perception is reality.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein