Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Soviet and American Shuttles
Message-ID: <1988Oct20.180523.24947@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1574@nunki.usc.edu> <3020@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <820@super.ORG> <1988Oct14.170004.1668@utzoo.uucp> <828@super.ORG>
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 88 18:05:23 GMT

In article <828@super.ORG> laurel@super.UUCP (Michael Tighe) writes:
>Unfortunately a few readers took these last comments seriously;
>Come on! This is obviously a facetious statement...

No, it's either a facetious statement or an ignorant statement.  The
latter type is far from unknown in this newsgroup and others.  Look
folks, if you want to be funny, mark it with ":-)".  Not doing so is
the mark of an inexperienced or careless news poster; this is not a
medium that conveys subtlety well.

>     I found it odd that the readers that knew the booster rocket
>story was wrong respond to it but did not respond to the errors
>in the original posting about the SSS being a plane...

The fact is, nobody's quite sure what the status of the jet engines
on the Soviet shuttle is, since there have been conflicting stories
for a long time.  The booster question is fairly well settled.
-- 
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