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From: julian@osu-eddie.UUCP (Julian Gomez)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Re: ASAT Debris (and wiping out GEO)
Message-ID: <642@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 17:11:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  5 17:11:13 1985
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 > Say what?  How is launching from the shuttle more of a problem than from
 > a booster?  
Because it's a two-step process, i.e. more things to go wrong.

Yes, the Soviets use orbiting nuclear reactors much more than we do;
Phil Karn <620@petrus.UUCP> says the USA has in fact flown only one
nuclear reactor.  He also mentions the plutonium that Apollo 13 left in
the Pacific Ocean.  However, something I was not aware of was how
poorly the Soviet nuclear satellites are designed; see his posting for
more.

Henry Spencer <6015@utzoo.UUCP> says that the US uses encapsulated
radioactive isotopes which can survive re-entry.  That just shows that
the USA is careful about its designs.  My original point was that we
can't condemn the USSR offhand for doing something that we also are
doing.  But we are doing it more responsibly.

"Fail Safe"  "Dr Strangelove ..."  "Level 7"  etc.
-- 
"If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	Computer Graphics Research Group, The Ohio State University
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