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Subject:	Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 12 May 2001 02:59:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes: > > > Ummm, the air flows in behind the rocket. :-) > > > > It's not as simple as just "air", it's the ozone layer, it's ionized > > particles, it's air flow currents that are disturbed. We still cannot verify > > what harm comes to the upper atmosphere during a launch and what effect it > > has on ultraviolet radiation poking through the atmosphere. > > Can't say that I've heard it causes any appreciable damage (the number of > launches is miniscule). A few years ago I read in a less-than-scrupulously-researched article that each launching of the space shuttle depletes between 8% and 10% of the ozone layer. Now, I'm not a mathematician, but we've had considerably more than 10 or 12 launches, have we not...? Dave!

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		Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
(...) Dang! It's gone! Where's the 200 sun screen? Bruce (25 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
(...) Sure, but it's 8-10% of the current (or remaining) ozone. So the first one stripped away 10% of the original amount, the next one 9%, the next one 8.1%, etc. So we'll always have some left. Or maybe the Ozone Flies just release more. Who (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
(...) Our society tends to be quite liberal with the use of percentage figures to back up a supposed presupposition or argument. Did anyone see that Nova episode about meteors? "We don't know how many [large] meteors there are in the solar system, (...) (25 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
(...) Didn't say otherwise, but it seems you are trying to slide the primary blame onto America instead of where it firmly belongs. Believe me, I'm not a big Bush backer. (...) Are you saying that "real" arabs wanted Saddam in control of Kuwait? (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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