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From: ccoprmd@pyr.gatech.EDU (Matthew T. DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: chauvinism (was : Re: Discovery - UFO Close Encounter?)
Message-ID: <7840@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 4 Apr 89 17:58:45 GMT
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Reply-To: ccoprmd@pyr.UUCP (Matthew T. DeLuca)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <884@dinl.mmc.UUCP> holroyd@dinl.UUCP (kevin w. holroyd) writes:
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>On the other hand, maybe the aliens would view the nation with the most 
>numerous launch facilities/number of objects in orbit as the most advanced.
>That leaves us (U.S.) on the primitive list again doesn't it??? ;^)

Could be.  In a 1983 National Geographic, the ratio of U.S. operating
spacecraft to Soviet operating spacecraft was something like 1.6:1.  I would
assume that this ratio has changed (presumably for the worse).  Anyone know
what the count is now?

I wouldn't say it puts us on the primitive list, but if that's their standard,
we're definitely second fiddle.

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