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In article <kpc7hqINN9s2@drb-mathsun7.usc.edu> glezen@drb-mathsun7.usc.edu
(Paul Glezen) writes:
>In article <28478@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> jlodman@beowulf.ucsd.edu
(Michael Lodman) writes:
>>Why is that it is seen as perfectly acceptable to dump all this
>>crap a couple of miles out, but it's a major environmental
>>catastrophy when it dumps closer in to shore? Out of sight, out
>>of mind? The brain boggles....
>>
>  I thought it was just me; the exact same idea entered my mind as well when I
>heard about this on the news.

This is business as usual.  It goes back further than the proposals to
bore big holes in the mountains surrounding LA to blow the smog away from
the LA Basin.  You will forget about it, and it will continue to happen.
Your tolerance to the media outcome, the constant bombardment of information
will numb you.  And every one else in the world (almost) is doing the same
thing as else where.  It has to do with the way we are wired and the
geometry of a globe.  Remember that "crap is jobs." 1/2 ;^)

--eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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