> Rounding up 1 significant figure would reduce their combat effectiveness > measurably. > > The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a > missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.
The Chinese had the shenzhou 2 capsule in orbit for 7 months in 2001... more recently shenzhou 3 went up with and safely returned nine eggs after 108 orbits... http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1948000/1948317.stm One would suspect that that they're far more interested in launching 12-14 ton commercial payloads with the long-march 2ea, then they are in blowing up the US. > We're off-topic, but I'd say that cyberterrorismis far less expensive to > create than invasion or nuclear weapons. > > Deepak Jain > AiNET > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > blitz > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S. > > > > I put nothing past them, of course theyre not alone, as we all must assume > by now. > Theyve threatened to nuke LA if we interfere with their plans to take > Tiawan by force, and smile and say, kill 300 million of us, do us a favor. > Kinda hard to deal with an enemy like that. > > At 18:01 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote: > > > >Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese government would actively > fund > >cyberterrorism? > > > >Deepak Jain > >AiNET > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"