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From: mvs@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG (Michael V. Stein)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: plutonium
Message-ID: <951@meccsd.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 27 Aug 88 01:00:27 GMT
References: <880825130944.0000072C.ABAY.AA@Virginia>
Reply-To: mvs@meccsd.UUCP (Michael V. Stein)
Organization: Minn. Educ. Comp. Corp.
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In article <880825130944.0000072C.ABAY.AA@Virginia> pcp2g@CDC.ACC.VIRGINIA.EDU (=3545***) writes:
>Someone wrote in suggesting that we dump plutonium into the sun and kill 
>two birds with one stone: getting dangerously radioactive stuff off of the Earth 
>and also once the plutonium was in the sun it would be ionized and therefore
>be detected by an alien race (if they are equipped with a damn good s[ppectro- 
>meter).

Plutonium is far too valuable of an energy source to go throw it away.  
Even if we could, which as Mr. Plait later explains is probabally 
impossible, it would be one of the most stupid ideas ever implemented
by anyone on this planet - or probably any other planet for that
matter.

-- 
Michael V. Stein - Minnesota Educational Computing Corp. - Technical Services
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