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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (11215)	2/20/2003 9:36:19 PM
From: Just_Observing	of 25898

Now break out your check book It costs around $5,000 to send one pound of material on the space shuttle. The cost of drinking water on the space shuttle is $500,000 per day for the six or seven astronauts. That explains why the Russians charge around $20 million per person for a space trip. The space shuttle is only a couple of hundred or so miles above the earth (The Hubble repair mission was conducted at a record Shuttle altitude of about 359 miles). It will cost a lot more to send stuff out to the sun. Nobody's checkbook can underwrite this cost. Not even Bill Gates'. We will have to live with all the uranium ore on earth. Or die with it. Uranium is just one of many threats to humanity. Biological weapons imminently promise a plethora of pernicious possibilities. We will need wisdom, tolerance, and justice to contain our destructiveness. Greed, injustice and stupidity remain our greatest threats. The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves. Even if we send all our uranium up there.

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