"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure this was an SF essay by Robert Heinlein.
> > He was talking about the future, as an aid for budding
> > SF authors. It included a line to the effect that
> > the overwhelming concern of the future military forces is
> > the fact that there is no way to repel an attack from space
> > (due to the gravity gauge).
> >
> > Does this ring any bells?
>
> Yes, and it is RAH. It appear in _Expanded Universe_, though I can't
> tell you the title offhand.
>
>
It's _Pandora's Box_, which also appears in _The Worlds of Robert A
Heinlein_.
There's a list of "free swinging predictions, including
3) The most im****tant military fact of this century is that there is no
way
to repel an attack from outer space.
--
Mike Stone - Peterborough, England
You can tell what God thinks of money by looking at the people He gives it
to.
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