File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0110, message 42


Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 07:27:54 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?anna=20miller?= <ruboutthewords-AT-yahoo.co.in>
Subject: Re: heaven forbid: heaven for bad


all I know is this:HEidegger was a Nazi. He would have
supported this war as he did the other one. 

--- Andrea Wheeler <wheelerandrea-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Michael,
> How are you? I'm sorry I've been out of touch. I've
> just got internet access 
> at home. How do you feel about the "War on
> Terrorism"? How are things with 
> you. I hope ypu wwill write and let me know. I know
> you didn't want to talk 
> about andrea - but it would be nice if you did.
> Love
> Andrea
> 
> 
> May the roads rise with you,
> and the wind be always at your back;
> May the sun shine warm upon your face.
> May the rain fall soft upon your fields,
> and until we meet again;
> May the Lord hold you in the hollow of His hand.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Michael Pennamacoor
> <pennamacoor-AT-enterprise.net>
> >Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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> >Subject: heaven forbid: heaven for bad
> >Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:58:23 +0000
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> >fellow civilised humans
> >
> >an interesting article from Richard Dawkins
> appeared in the Guardian 
> >today... hope this is
> >appropriate:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Religion's misguided missiles
> >
> >Promise a young man that death is not the end and
> he will willingly cause 
> >disaster
> >
> >Special report: terrorism in the US
> >
> >Richard Dawkins
> >
> >Guardian, Saturday September 15, 2001
> >
> >A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it
> flies, homing in, say, on 
> >the heat of a jet
> >planes exhaust. A great improvement on a simple
> ballistic shell, it still 
> >cannot
> >discriminate particular targets. It could not zero
> in on a designated New 
> >York skyscraper
> >if launched from as far away as Boston.
> >
> >That is precisely what a modern smart missile can
> do. Computer 
> >miniaturisation has
> >advanced to the point where one of todays smart
> missiles could be 
> >programmed with an
> >image of the Manhattan skyline together with
> instructions to home in on the 
> >north tower of
> >the World Trade Centre. Smart missiles of this
> sophistication are possessed 
> >by the United
> >States, as we learned in the Gulf war, but they are
> economically beyond 
> >ordinary
> >terrorists and scientifically beyond theocratic
> governments. Might there be 
> >a cheaper and
> >easier alternative?
> >
> >In the second world war, before electronics became
> cheap and miniature, the 
> >psychologist
> >BF Skinner did some research on pigeon-guided
> missiles. The pigeon was to 
> >sit in a tiny
> >cockpit, having previously been trained to peck
> keys in such a way as to 
> >keep a designated
> >target in the centre of a screen. In the missile,
> the target would be for 
> >real.
> >
> >The principle worked, although it was never put
> into practice by the US 
> >authorities. Even
> >factoring in the costs of training them, pigeons
> are cheaper and lighter 
> >than computers of
> >comparable effectiveness. Their feats in Skinners
> boxes suggest that a 
> >pigeon, after a
> >regimen of training with colour slides, really
> could guide a missile to a 
> >distinctive
> >landmark at the southern end of Manhattan island.
> The pigeon has no idea 
> >that it is
> >guiding a missile. It just keeps on pecking at
> those two tall rectangles on 
> >the screen,
> >from time to time a food reward drops out of the
> dispenser, and this goes 
> >on until
> >oblivion.
> >
> >Pigeons may be cheap and disposable as on-board
> guidance systems, but 
> >theres no escaping
> >the cost of the missile itself. And no such missile
> large enough to do much 
> >damage could
> >penetrate US air space without being intercepted.
> What is needed is a 
> >missile that is not
> >recognised for what it is until too late. Something
> like a large civilian 
> >airliner,
> >carrying the innocuous markings of a well-known
> carrier and a great deal of 
> >fuel. Thats
> >the easy part. But how do you smuggle on board the
> necessary guidance 
> >system? You can
> >hardly expect the pilots to surrender the left-hand
> seat to a pigeon or a 
> >computer.
> >
> >How about using humans as on-board guidance
> systems, instead of pigeons? 
> >Humans are at
> >least as numerous as pigeons, their brains are not
> significantly costlier 
> >than pigeon
> >brains, and for many tasks they are actually
> superior. Humans have a proven 
> >track record
> >in taking over planes by the use of threats, which
> work because the 
> >legitimate pilots
> >value their own lives and those of their
> passengers.
> >
> >The natural assumption that the hijacker ultimately
> values his own life 
> >too, and will act
> >rationally to preserve it, leads air crews and
> ground staff to make 
> >calculated decisions
> 
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