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Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
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Thu, 11 May 2000 18:07:12 GMT
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That's assuming we'd use boosters, of course.  I figure railguns would be more
foolproof.

Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
Heck yeah fission is cleaner.  We always seem to be worried about what to do
with the spent rods - why not drop them into the sun?  It's not like it's
going to pollute the sun or anything, and the canisters wouldn't need much of
a boost at all.

Booster blows up - you now have radioactive material spread over an extremely
wide area.  And to make the launch somewhat econonomically feasible, you packed
it to the max.  Thankfully, it took off from Florida (which if we recall, is
going to be flooded anyway) and not Vandenderg in California.  ;-)

Bruce

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| Tom Stangl, Technical Support          Netscape Communications Corp
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  Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
 
(...) Rule Number 1: If you make something foolproof, they'll only go out and invent a better fool. :-) (Actually, until the working railgun exists, missles are the only option, and even getting teeny-tiny reactors for deep-space satellites takes an (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Global Warming (was: Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?)
 
(...) Booster blows up - you now have radioactive material spread over an extremely wide area. And to make the launch somewhat econonomically feasible, you packed it to the max. Thankfully, it took off from Florida (which if we recall, is going to (...) (25 years ago, 11-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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