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Re: Keeping Larry Amused
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:08:42 GMT
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 19:00:54 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
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> There is a cost from lightning too, and if we wanted to, we could
> prevent lightning from ever happening. But the cost of preventing it far
I don't know exactly what you're smoking, but I think I'd like you to
keep it away from me.
How, pray tell, could we prevent lightning from ever striking?
Note, _ever_ means _one_hundred_percent_ effective.
Jasper
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| (...) Note carefully that there is no claim that the following is *practical* or a good idea. Merely that it is doable. In fact it is hugely impractical and a terrible idea. Lightning is a good thing, actually, despite the fact that sometimes it (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I agree there's a cost to someone. I just don't see it as a cost to "society". Some one entity or group of entities is going to be, bad luck for them, stuck with it. If this is what the entire anti immigration argument boils down to, I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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