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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: tejek who wrote (244152)7/29/2005 8:19:57 PM
From: steve harris  Read Replies (1) of 1574493
 
Here ted,
some history for you...

The Clinton legacy continues...

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Because of demands that the agency help to front for environmentalism, and under pressure from the Clinton-Gore administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) led by Carol Browner, NASA had stopped using Freon, a fluorocarbon that greens claim damages the ozone layer, in its thermal-insulating foam. NASA found in 1997 after the first launch with the politically correct substitute that the Freon-free foam had destroyed 11 times as many of the shuttle's ceramic tiles as had the foam containing Freon. The politicized foam was less sticky and more brittle under extreme temperatures. But apparently little or nothing was done to resist the environmentalist politicians.

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Freon being removed from the external tank's coating of foam killed the crew of the Columbia....

Thank you Bill Clinton....
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