Re: Hitting planets with comets

On Mon, 12 May 1997, Rutherford, Michael wrote:

> Or if you were sufficiently xenophobic you wouldn't care that the
planet
> was destroyed so long as the xenos were as well (eg David Weber's
> series).

Very true. In a war with aliens (and lacking effective terraforming),
your planets might very well be unusable to them and vice versa. 
So if it's going to be a hostile environment to you anyway, why not make

it hostile to everyone? 

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