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From: ross@smeagol.UUCP (Gary Ross)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Deadly green canister?
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 12:33:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 12:33:17 1986
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> The speculation is that this canister is the possible container of a
> plutonium power source for the Galileo mission. Won't kill you in
> two seconds, but VERY DEADLY all the same.
> 

    That is utterly ridicluous. Why the h--l would NASA send up only the power
source for a mission that was't supposed el be launched until May. As far as  
I know no one besides you has made that specualtion. It is this kind of uninformed
and unfounded specualtion that this network could do without.