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From: alastair@geovision.uucp (Alastair Mayer)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: SST landing rights in US
Message-ID: <535@geovision.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 20:31:25 GMT
References: <601326396.amon@H.GP.CS.CMU.EDU> <1205@esunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: alastair@geovision.UUCP (Alastair Mayer)
Organization: GeoVision Corp, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1205@esunix.UUCP> bpendlet@esunix.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:

 [..of course there's stuff deleted..]

>2) SSTs release water vapor at very high altitudes. It was believed
>that this water vapor would form permanent, or nearly permanent,
>clouds at altitudes where clouds are not normally found. These clouds
>would reduce the amount of sun light reaching the ground and cause a
>global cooling. It was believed that contrails were already having
>this effect.

  That's it!  The answer the The Dreaded Greenhouse Effect!  We'll just
build SSTs and carefully balance the global heating caused by CO2 build
up and other nasties, by global cooling caused by high altitude SST
contrails.

   Who says there aren't always technological solutions?

   (Of course, lotsa smileys :-) :-) :-)
-- 
"The problem is not that spaceflight is expensive,  | Alastair J.W. Mayer
therefore only the government can do it, but that   | alastair@geovision.UUCP
only the government is doing spaceflight, therefore | al@BIX
it is expensive."                                   |