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Article #104Re: Putting volatiles on the moon
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 18:18
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 18:18
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In article <178@newave.newave.mn.org> john@newave.newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) writes:
>> As a method of steering the comets, a few large nukes could give a comet
>> enough of a push to do the job. Also a good usefull way of turning swords
>> into plowshares! ...
>
>... Please try to refrain from using nukes for anything
>other than blowing up people, and I really hope we don't use them for
>that purpose either.
Far more people have been blown up by conventional explosives than by
nuclear weapons. Should we therefore refuse, on high moral principles,
to use dynamite for construction? This is silly.
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-Hal W. Hardenbergh (1985)| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Putting volatiles on the moon Message-ID: <BwwAuz.ABs@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 18:18:33 GMT References: <Bwov8y.6C3.2@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Oct27.050516.5867@rvgs.vak12ed.edu> <178@newave.newave.mn.org> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15