From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 95 11:58:23 PDT
To: Andrew.Spring@ping.be (Andrew Spring)
Subject: Re: NSA into antigravity?
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Andrew Spring writes:
> Missile targeting software depends on good models of the earth's gravity
> for accuracy, both for design and for simulation purposes.  Since Ft. Meade
> was doubtless the target of many nukes during the cold war (and probably
> still is), that may account for them having a bug up their asses on the
> subject.

More likely if you were working for the NSA and some people were
driving about your place with expensive electronic monitoring
equipment you would get nervous, too, until you knew precisely what
they were doing.

.pm