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From: sanderso@rpics (Donald B. Sanderson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: An idea
Keywords: Idea
Message-ID: <1989Sep21.144235.19977@rpi.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 89 14:42:35 GMT
References: <1108@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: sanderso@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Donald B. Sanderson)
Organization: RPI CS Dept.
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In article <1108@lakesys.UUCP> davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft) writes:
....
>If a shuttle has been rolled out, why can't they roll it out onto a platform
>that goes down into the earrth to protect it? (kinda like a big elevator), and
>Dave
>.... You may flame me as hard as you wish. even in public.)

	Well, I will not discuss technical merit of the idea, but
as a Floridian, I can tell you we have a special name for deep
holes in the ground ....  Ponds.  The water table is so high
that any excavation quickly becomes water filled.  This is why
there are no basements in S. Florida buildings, they would
be indoor swimming pools.



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