Re: More planetary defences

George William Herbert [email removed] writes:
> 	Think on this one, a bit... rather than a 'national guard', give
> everyone on the planet a combo pack of the following:
> 	Laser Rangefinder/direction finder (PRIS Binocs do fine)
> 	Inertial Locator
> 	x range masercom (determined by other constraints)

Now imagine trying to do that in real life.  Can you imagine what would happen
if President Bush tried to pass a law that every house be fitted with a
military installation?  Even something relatively harmless like the above?  If
a war was in progress, or looked like being imminent, he might get away with
an emergency programme, assuming that the required number of devices could be
provided, distributed and installed at short notice.  Otherwise there would
be the mother of all peace protests!

As for doing it in Traveller - on a non-democratic world perhaps, or maybe by
Imperial decree.

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