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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Notch another one up for the Greennazis
- In-Reply-To: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu's message of Mon, 16 Nov 92 06:32:55 GMT
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 00:13:11
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- In conjecturing about who caused the collision, consider who benefits
- from it.
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- The Japanese are transporting on this trip only 1.5 tons
- out of 47 tons of plutonium resulting from the reprocessesing.
- One can hop they will not need 30 voyages to transport it all, but
- they will need some more. The less fuss there is, the better for
- them.
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- Greenpeace, on the other hand, wants as much fuss as possible. The
- bastards hope they can make subsequent voyages more and more politically
- difficult. They want collisions and other confrontations.
-
- I suppose the ultimate upshot of the flap is that the Japanese will
- build their own reprocessing plant. Then when we finally give up
- Jimmy Carter's foolish idea that it would provide a "good example"
- to not salvage the plutonium from our own spent fuel rods, we can
- send our fuel rods to Japan to be reprocessed - with one more
- well-deserved hit in the balance of trade.
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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