🚀 go-pugleaf

\I believe that what the Chinese are reported to be using is oak, not
/bamboo.  they are also reported to produce a lot of their space
\hardware in a refrigerator factory, or soemthing like that.  So much
/for Western requirements for Level 100 cleanrooms.

Back before the big cleanup I could have gotten you a good deal on
enough oak to have retrieved a couple Skylabs intact; but we weren't
able to sell it, the lumberyards don't take "windfalls" from people's
yards, because they might have old nails and stuff in them...  as if
we don't know where all the nails are...

It basically got hauled away with all the other fallen trees.  

\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
/ in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden

Yup. An industry too chicken(explicitave deleted) to learn about
post-stone-age devices such as metal detectors turned our potential
resource back into trash. I wonder how much they'd be paying for it
if it were from virgin forest that species were driven extinct for
instead of from our backyard.

Needless to say, I think I now support efforts to save the Northern
Spotted Owl. If the lumber mills don't want to live in the real world,
and throw away (possible total for the area) tens of millions of dollars
worth of good oak and pine in a time when everyone could have used
financial help in the cleanup, then I don't want to either.

God, I think you *could* have heat-shielded several Skylabs with that
wood...

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/Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Just so y'all don't think Mary wrote that...
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pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|An old legend of a mythical hero..."