Wheto construct a Habitat?

rmenich@... wrote:

> Suppose an upper stage, used to place a satellite into GTO, explodes into
> thousands of fragments. In your semantic world, what do you call these
> fragments?

A real nuisance. Actually it happened twice last year. Not
fun.

> Ron
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> Ravenart@...
> 02/19/02 04:10 PM
> Please respond to spacesettlers
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> Subject: Re: [spacesettlers] Re: Where to construct a Habitat?
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> Lynn Olson,
>
> Don't insult my mind. There's pollution and there's trash. The two are
> not
> always the same thing. You don't call trash pollution, you call it liter.
> If
> you have read my posts carefully, you would have seen my posts about
> recycling the very same things you have wasted 10 mintues of your time
> writing about! This is irrational waste of time. My first post on the
> subject of trash in space was in support of L2 in which I has thought
> would
> make a good junkyard which can keep the trash from damaging ships and the
> like. While on this topic, let me add that L2 would allow a businessman
> to
> collect them so he can keep track and sell the goods to anybody who want
> to
> recycle them (such as empty tanks from shuttles). I swear, sometime, I
> think
> some people are getting all their ecology ideas fro the mass media which
> most
> certainly are not good at teaching science or english. But then, when
> half
> of my science teachers are either creationists or having only teacher's
> degree, the public schools are no better either. Most of my education
> come
> from the library on my own time. Not bad for a deaf kid who hate being
> treated as a dependancy.
>
> Carl Mullin
>

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