> At 13:07 15/01/97 -0600, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Alexander Williams wrote:
> >
> >[CLIP]
> >
> >> > war has never sapped people of their strength of will, has never
> >> > sapped people of their courage or turned them into chickens,
> >> > drained people's patience, or hindered technology?
> >>
> >> Peace has done all of the above as well. When the sum of the game is 0,
> >> you have to expand your view.
> >
> >Alex, you state things too conservatively.
> >
> >Peace does all of the above, "exponentially" more effectively than war!
> >
> >However, you may want the situation stable enough to allow the
> >mathematicians to create the math *before* the engineers need it. The
> >absence of the math was the reason the Harrier jump jet was built ~1992
> >instead of ~1982.
>
> Sorry sir, but the Harrier was designed and built in the 60s or 70s. I've
> been going to the Science Museum in London and staring at one ever since I
> was a weeny little kidling (Born 1968).
Ok. I need whichever warplane was the first to be fly-by-wire: computer
failure causes immediate plane disintegration in < 1 millisecond. The
ultimate in unaerodynamic flight.
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