Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!bob
From: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: SST landing rights in US
Message-ID: <1298@etive.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Jan 89 17:37:16 GMT
References: <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: bob@etive.ed.ac.uk (Bob Gray)
Organization: Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project
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In article <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> Dale.Amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
>Actually what stopped the SST in the US were the enviro-nuts who
>probably thought the sonic booms would vibrate the tail feathers off
>the ducks. Or maybe they felt that if man were meant to fly at MACH god
>would have given him a higher methane storage capacity... :-) and :-(

One of the main complaints apart from the noise, was that it
was going to make holes in the Ozone layer above the Atlantic.

There was also some story at the same time about how rocket
launches were making holes in the Ozone layer which took
days to close up. 

Does anyone know if there were ever any follow-up
studies of this?
	Bob.