Re: Foopball Shed Door Closure

Austin Shackles <austinNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On or around Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:22:26 +0000, Marc Wilson
> <E-0C001302-2163-E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >In uk.rec.sheds, (Austin Shackles) wrote in
> ><ba2so196ht9drkqtq3hfi81r9sojuelbn4@xxxxxxx>::
> >
> >>tellyer how to deal with it. Molish a minimum-spec rocket, fill it with
> >>waste, shoot it towards the sun.
> >
> >Given their recent propensity for blowing up, not *too* "minimum-spec",
> >please. No Arianes, for instance.
> >
> well, aye. minimum-spec *reliable* rocket.

You'd be surprised. Ariane _is_ reliable. It has had a few blow-ups
recently, but if you put that against the number of launches that did go
well, it is still, IIRC, rather better than the next most reliable
competitor. For a rocket, Ariane is good, very good.

'course, this is all the more reason _not_ to send our waste into the
sun, not even by the most reliable of rockets let alone by something as
blow-uppy as wossname. Anyways, we may want to deprive our descendants
of the nukular radiation, but who is to say that they won't consider it
valuable material and curse us for throwing it far off the planet?
Before we discovered aluminium, bauxite was just a dirty brown rock.

Richard
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