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From: smcgee%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Mcgee)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Easter Island
Message-ID: <1990Aug1.104545.8257@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 90 16:45:45 GMT
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Sender: smcgee%albion@cs.utah.edu (Scott McGee)
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I can't help myself here either...

In article <305.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes:
>I couldn't help myself here...
>
>> Just as a related point of interest, in David Brin's new novel (science
>> fiction) called "Earth", the shuttle Atlantis must have used the Easter
>> Island emergency landing strip and then been accidentally "dropped" onto
>> the 747 carrier dammaging both irrepairibly. The shuttle was then stripped
>> of much of the equipement that could be used on the other shuttles and
>> then turned into a monument.
>
>But was a panel formed to investigate the accidental dropping?! :-)
>
>                         - tom

In the novel, the monument was just left uncared for and birds, using it
as a roost, dropped ... well, um, droppings ... on it. Was a panel formed
to investigate these droppings as well? [insert multiple smilies here]

Scott



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