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Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 12 May 2001 20:30:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
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> > 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...?
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> 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.
Oh, wait, it's only 8-10% of the ozone it *passes through*, right?
;) I mean, good Lord, only if we're powering it with sulfur!
> Or maybe the Ozone Flies just release more.
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> Who knows?
The solution, of course, is to simply drive our cars around in
the stratosphere. (A reference, however veiled, to NJ's "Ozone
Action Days," for the uninitiated.)
Now see? If we'd stuck to our Jetsons model, and we all had
flying cars like we were *promised* in the 1950s-1960s, this
problem just plain wouldn't exist. I blame Pokémon. (Well,
because that's *always* a good scapegoat.) [1]
all best
Lindsay
[1] I'm just kidding, natch'rly.
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