Gil wrote:
I remember this very well. I was a little suprised by the protests at
the launch, but I probably shouldn't have been. Hell, if they wanted to
protest about environmental damage, they should have complained about
the SRB's and not the potential for plutonium exposure.

In my opinion, the overriding environmental problem is overpopulation.
That feeds just about everything else. Control the population, and
many (though certainly not all) of your problems go away.

Brian Tung
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