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Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
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Sat, 12 May 2001 18:14:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
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!

Dang!  It's gone!  Where's the 200 sun screen?

Bruce



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  Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
 
(...) A few years ago I read in a less-than-scrupulous...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 (...) (23 years ago, 12-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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