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From: Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Ozone and the Shuttle
Message-ID: <10556.2619.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu>
Date: 19 Aug 90 06:55:00 GMT
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   > 10556/2618. Nici Schraudolph (schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu) 02:10 Sun Aug 19/90  1
   >
   > Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Destroys Ozone Layer ???  17:28 Sat Aug 18/90
   > Summary: ignoring a problem away?
   >
   > 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.
   >
   > Nobody violently doubting the figures.  Nobody asking how this could be
   > allowed to happen.  Nobody suggesting what could be done.  Just guilty
   > silence overall.  Could it be that we are trying to ignore a problem away
   > here?  Wouldn't be the first time.
 
     You're reader must be way behind mine. I've seen several posts refuting 
   the article you mention.  One article gave specific figures for the amount
   of ozone depletion due to various causes.  The shuttle was not the 
   biggest.  (I would quote the article but no longer have it.)  Another
   article (if I recall correctly) discussed the effects of the SRB's have
   at various altitudes and what that does to the ozone.
 
     So, no, we haven't just wished it away.
 
   Greg_d._Moore@mts.rpi.edu