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Subject: Re: Space Burial
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Date: Tue, 29-Jan-85 22:32:30 EST
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What a stupid idea. It's not enough that humans have to waste
on cemeteries the land that's scarce enough in some areas to fight
wars over (which is one good way to fill them). After all the amount
of land in the world is essentially constant and the number of dead people
in the world is monotonically increasing. Now we have to waste
one of mankinds's most expensive and potentially valuable technological
systems we have on it as well.

Ah, progress and free enterprise. What else would you expect from a country
that gave you both Ronald Reagan and William Proxmire?

Phil (I want to be cremated when I die) Karn