To senualpilgram's Free State Proposal

The reason you never really know if your defense is adequate is that
there's no way to do a definitive test. Also, you never know if you've
thought of the attack your opponent is going to use (think 9/11).

On Monday, September 9, 2002, at 01:51 PM, panamabob wrote:

> Never enough defense? Isn't that the echo of the old cold war scenarios
> and
> the proliferation of ICBM's etc? :-)
>

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect and
deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html