Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Destroys Ozone Layer ??? Message-ID: <1990Aug19.031023.12183@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 90 03:10:23 GMT In article schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) writes: >For weeks now I have been waiting for some reaction to Mark R. Thorson's >alarming post (summary: shuttle launches cause significant percentage of >the world's ozone destruction problem), but... zilch. Nada. Not a single >post. If we were launching two shuttles a week, it would be a serious problem. If you look at early NASA studies, they say quite clearly that once traffic gets really high, there is an urgent requirement for a liquid-fuel booster... for exactly that reason (among others). As it is, it's peanuts. People have ignored it because it's alarmist fear-mongering rather than rational discussion. -- It is not possible to both understand | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry