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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Why nuke planets?
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Date: Mon, 16-Jan-84 15:34:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 16 15:34:11 1984
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     My dictionary says that an ecology is the "totality of the interrel-
ationships among organisms and their environment".  If there is no life
outside the Earth in our Solar System, there is no ecology to disturb.

     One of the reasons I support space development is it will allow
us to learn how ecologies work.  By setting up independant ecologies
on space stations and settlements, we can run controlled experiments
such experiments on the Earth for any number of good reasons, one
being you can't get controlled enough conditions, another being people
get annoyed when you mess with an existing ecology.

                                                  DaniEder
                                                  Boeing Aerospace
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