On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:14:32 -0500, Doktor DynaSoar
<targeting@OMCL.mil> Gave us:

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} >>   Well still have a LEO worldwide phone system in place.

It's what a lot of the satellite phones being used in the middle east
run on.

  Well duh.  If it is a satellite phone, it's going to be a LEO
system.  No choice.  :]

} >>   Yet another mistake was the killing of the particle accelerator in
} >> Texas.  They were nearly done with the damned thing.   Big mistake.

It would have cost more to finish than it would have cost to upgrade
existing accelerators, and wouldn't have been as powerful.

  Upgrade?  Sorry, the size of it was, and would be well worth having,
as that was the entire premise of that particular ring, and NO
"upgrade" to ANY existing accelerator would be able to accomplish what
this one was to be capable of.