Re: James, what do you want with a moonbase anyway?

Ken from Chicago wrote:

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Ken from Chicago wrote:


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In article <p9GdnYtNy-ocNhDZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Dude, come on, a moonbase?! What for?

Well, we could use it to store nuclear waste... What's the worst
that could happen?

Sean Case


That's just silly. Shoot the nuclear waste at the Sun. Shoot all the waste we want, the Sun will burn more.

-Wooossshhhhh--

I think you missed the point. If we had stored nuclear waste on the moon, there would have been a horrible accident 7 years ago.


Why would we use the shuttle to launch nuclear waste? There's more reliable one-shot rockets that can do that. The shuttle seems overqualified for such a mission.

That said, any kind of explosion in mid air would be a might ... pesky.

-- Ken from Chicago



Space: 1999.
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