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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.flame
Subject: Re: Nuclear power and the free market
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 11:18:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 11:18:00 1984
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Reply-To: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
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Donald Wallace Rouse II writes (among other things):
>...This means that elsewhere on the earth, crust is being returned to the
>deapths of the planet.  Bury the nuclear waste there.  It will
>disappear forever....

The trouble with this proposal is that the magma of coastal volcanoes comes
from the melting of such crust.  Horrors, in 5 million years St. Helens
might well nuke as well as puke.				B-)

Larry Wall
{allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall

P.S.  I want a bumper sticker that says "COAL KILLS QUICKER".  Has a nice
      alliterative ring to it.

P.P.S.  Requisite flame, since this is going to net.flame:

	pragma FLAME(ON);

	Have you noticed that the gentle art of writing postscripts has very
	nearly disappeared ever since these .signature files came into vogue?
	People are becoming slaves of their .signature file.  Consider the
	practice flamed.

	pragma FLAME(OFF);

	Suggestion for users of intelligent editors:  mv ~/.signature ~/.mysig
	and then write a little mlisp routine called insert-signature-file
	that does an insert-file on "~/.mysig", and bind it to ^X-s or
	something.  Works great, and increases your feelings of power
	rather than impotence, at the cost of only a couple keystrokes.
	Consider the practice espoused.

P.P.P.S.  Or how about "SAVE OUR TREES/SPLIT ATOMS, NOT WOOD"?

P.P.P.P.S.  Requisite political observation, since this is going to
	    net.politics:

	    Obviously the anti-nukecritters should appreciate the savvy of
	    Reagan's deal with China.  He just got us some trade agreements
	    of positive value, while giving away nuclear power plants, which
	    are (according to anti-nukecritters) of negative value.  Clever,
	    these running-dog Yankees.