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From: timothym@tekigm2.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Escape tower for shuttle orbiter?
Message-ID: <504@tekigm2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 13:22:37 EST
Article-I.D.: tekigm2.504
Posted: Thu Mar 13 13:22:37 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 20:55:51 EST
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References: <418@watcgl.UUCP> <627@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: timothym@tekigm2 D Margeson.UUCP (Timothy D Margeson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Summary: Airbags for the shuttle

In article <627@bentley.UUCP> kwh@bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>In article <418@watcgl.UUCP> wwatcgl!vgfranceschi (Valerio Franceschin) writes:
>[ David desJardins writes: ]
>>>    I hate to sound callous, but I don't see the point of all of this just
>>> to save the crew.  If you could save the orbiter, that would be great, but
>>> you are talking about something that has got to cost hundreds of millions
>>> of dollars just to save the crew.  Doesn't this seem a trifle excessive?
>
>>You don't sound callous, you sound like a neanderthal SAVAGE!
>
>Do you have airbags in your car?  If not, would you pay a million dollars
>to have them installed?  They do save lives.

Hear hear for the airbags. I don't have cause they arn't offered for my car,
so I use what I do have... the belts. Toodles....

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