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From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: booster pollution
Message-ID: <1144@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 21:16:16 GMT
References: <15378@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Jan6.060300.13029@utzoo.uucp> <1990Jan15.164939.29641@utzoo.uucp> <19846@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
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In article <19846@watdragon.waterloo.edu> jdnicoll@watyew.waterloo.edu (Brian or James) writes:
>SF authors use nuclear drives in atmosphers with cheerful abandon.

I recall a Larry Niven story, where a fusion-drive ship is conveyed to
orbit by a thruster that was "... air compressed almost to degenerate
matter.  Using a fusion drive in the Earth's atmosphere was good for a
one-way trip to the Organ Banks -- in pieces."
-- 
Mike Van Pelt           I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the 
Headland Technology     word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
(was: Video Seven)                   -- William F. Buckley
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