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From: erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger.
Message-ID: <365@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 01:46:26 GMT
References: <347@flatline.UUCP> <3212@killer.UUCP>
Organization: flatline in Houston(Montrose, really), Tx.
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Summary: Ah..But Biafra's not a nut case.

In article <3212@killer.UUCP>, elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
> 
> There is a treaty banning nuclear WEAPONS in space. But there is no treaty
> banning nuclear REACTORS in space. Remember that Russian satellite that broke
> up over Canada a few years back, spewing low-level radiation over a wide
> swath? It was powered by a nuclear reactor....

Ok, so that's it.  No nuclear weapons, but nuclear reactors are just fine.
If we're allowed to launch reactors into space, why not launch the waste,
too?  The 'what-if-it-blows-up?' answer could be applied to the launch
of the reactor as well....

> Your friend the nut case might have been thinking about the SDI payload that
> was recently sent up on a Delta(?) rocket... it was originally scheduled for
> the shuttle, back when the shuttle was planned to fly, well, now.

My 'friend the nut case' has a very good point.  What if the rocket/shuttle
/whatever that's carrying 46 pounds of plutonium goes blooie in lower
atmosphere?  You gonna be ready to live inside for the next few years?
I'm not.  I'd much rather spend money getting us a base on the moon, 
and just mine/manufacture all the reactor fuel there..  Where
there *aren't* 5 billion people, at least 3 billion of which are just
minding their own buisiness.

> Eric Lee Green  elg@usl.CSNET     Asimov Cocktail,n., A verbal bomb
> {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg              detonated by the mention of any
> Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191              subject, resulting in an explosion
> Lafayette, LA 70509                    of at least 5,000 words.

Hey, do you attend the University of Slow Learners, by any chance??      :-)
(I used to live in La. too.... get out of the state while you still can! :-)
-- 
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