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A comment on CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of the Absolute (1983) [pdf].

Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by SubiculumCode on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:11PM (#19427147)
1. Try and see. 2. Leak program. 3. Get USSR to waste resources trying it themselves, and/or spying on the American program.
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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by rosser on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:43PM (#19427322)
I think we woefully underestimate the amount and kinds of absurdity our governments get up to for counterintelligence purposes.
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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by cftm on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:13PM (#19427493)
This exactly.

The cold war was ended by the Strategic Defense Initiative - not because it worked but because we forced the USSR to pour resources into matching us and it bankrupted the country.

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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by mjevans on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:57AM (#19428894)
What an horrid war of attrition. The only winning move is to have deeper pockets.
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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by nradov on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:45AM (#19430200)
It was less horrid than the alternative.
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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by SubiculumCode on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:19PM (#19433006)
Yes it was resources used non productively. But winning a war with metal and bombs and radiation---priceless.
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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by yters on Monday March 18, 2019 @09:48PM (#19427334)
I think it's the other way around. We were anxious to get into this kind of research because we heard the USSR was well on their way.
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Re:CIA Doc on Time Travel, Consciousness, and Existence of t... by jacobush on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:31AM (#19429818)
feedback loop
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