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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Space Art & Tourists in Space
Message-ID: <3431@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Dec-83 21:41:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 28 21:41:03 1983
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Before you object to the "artificial Northern Lights" notion on the
grounds of environmental damage, please explain what environmental
damage it will do that will persist for longer than a few minutes.
The amounts of material that will be put into the upper atmosphere by
such a project are utterly negligible compared to what's already there;
it doesn't matter which particular material you are thinking of.  The
only reason there is any noticeable effect at all is because the
material ejected from the shuttle is concentrated in one small area.
It doesn't stay that way.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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