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QUOTE: "I want to rail against wind and tide, kill the whales in the ocean, sweep the whole country to save people from slavery...
...TREN SUBTERRANEO ES PELIGROSA. The sign appears in nearly every subway car along New York City's 230-mile system. Literally translated from Spanish, it means, "The subterranean train track is dangerous." Though it refers to the electrified third rail and not to the dangers inside the trains, few New Yorkers would argue with its broader implications. Fewer still, however, have seen the sign recently. It has been obscured in most cars by coat after coat of indecipherable graffiti...
...effort to make it "survivable," or impervious to a Soviet first strike, Pentagon planners studied at least 37 basing ideas, including one that would have kept the MX arsenal permanently airborne and another that would have shunted 200 missiles in and out of 4,600 shelters along underground rail tracks, keeping the enemy guessing about which shelters were in use at any given time. The Reagan Administration even proposed, and then quickly dropped, a "dense pack" cluster of missiles on the theory that some of the weapons would survive an attack if they were concentrated in one location...
...based rockets might be fired into the upper atmosphere. Each rocket would release a swarm of so- called smart rocks--vehicles powered by little thrusters and guided by tiny sensors--to hit warheads and decoys in space. An alternative is to fire the smart rocks out of devices called rail guns placed in orbit. The rail guns use a burst of electric current to accelerate the smart rocks along a rail. One problem is sheer numbers: immense swarms of smart rocks would be needed to hit warheads and decoys indiscriminately. The other option, picking out the warheads from the decoys...
...wants to increase research funding for the SDI from $1.4 billion this year to $3.7 billion in 1986 and spend a whopping $30 billion during the next six years. Because a space-based defense system is still highly speculative, the research encompasses a dizzying array of technologies, like electromagnetic "rail guns" to fire projectiles at extremely high speeds across hundreds of miles of space and particle accelerators to hit a missile with a stream of atoms traveling near the speed of light...