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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: <442@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 88 21:48:06 GMT
References: <365@flatline.UUCP> <713@esunix.UUCP>
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In article <713@esunix.UUCP>, bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:

> You have to be careful with nuclear materials. But, you have to be reasonable
> about assesing risks. The word "plutonium" has you jumping out of your skin
> with fright. I'll bet the word "coal" doesn't frighten you at all. But I'll
> bet that the coal industry kills more people every year than the plutonium
> industry does.

My worries about the plutonium (at the time of the posting) were
directly related to my misunderstanding of the isotope generaters and
all the stuff that I've received so much email about...

I am worried about coal.  I think coal and hydrocarbon fuels in general
are a really bad idea.  I also wish solar powered everything would become
economical...  I've read a lot of stuff on alternative energy that leads
me to beleive it'd be quite easy.

Solar powered launch vehicles, anyone?
 
> 			Bob Pendleton
> Bob Pendleton @ Evans & Sutherland
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>         I am solely responsible for what I say.
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