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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by sobellian on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:16PM (#26168779)
The most obvious counterexample to this would be an arms race.
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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by gengear on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:28PM (#26168917)
We can reduce this to halting problem. We will never know finish line exists until we reach one?
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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by conk on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:25PM (#26168867)
Maybe we just haven’t hit the “finish line” yet with the arms race...
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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by Teknoman117 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:06PM (#26171784)
I really hope that line would have been "the weapons are good enough", but considering the US stockpile of nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War was enough to cause the extinction of humanity a few times over, I guess not...
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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by learc83 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @04:48PM (#26172256)
The claim that we have (or had) enough nuclear weapons to cause the actual extinction of humanity, much less cause it several times over, is dubious. If you google it there are numerous articles debating it. At the very least there isn’t scientific consensus.
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Re:Declassified spacecrafts and orbital weapons of the USSR ... by danielheath on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:08PM (#26175076)
> scientific consensus

Do you propose an experimental measurement? /s

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