The subs, too were already in numerous existance before Star Wars plans were made public. There would have been no rational need to step up normal production.
And it is Physicists saying it is physically impossible, not economists debating the viability of a courier service. Different animals. It's men and women who devoted their lives to the science. And it is concensus.
Can you provide me links on how the Soviets planned to battle the Star Wars program? Cause the obvious cost effective solution is to just overwhelm it with a storm of rockets. I don't think they even tried to develop against it.
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