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- From: pgf@srl06.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- Subject: Re: SSTO viability, Al Gore, Canadian Geese
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:57:28 GMT
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- >I have read statements to this effect, written by persons whose eyes
- >presumably glow red in the dark (such is their political fervor), but
- >most people who make an effort to be objective about the matter and
- >who have actually studied his record would find it hard to ignore
- >Senator Gore's involvement in non-environmental (especially technical)
- >issues.
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- Yah, but the nature of the involvement is disturbing. National networks
- and all that are fine, but who's going to be doing space exploration
- if NASA ends up building NREN (as I've heard in unsubstantiated rumors
- left in my e-mailbox from people using STMP protocols to send them)?
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- \What *I'd* like to know is why geese feel it necessary to honk frequently
- /as they fly along, and what perhaps 50% of them know about Canada, that
- \they refuse to go there even in the summer! :-)
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- They're afraid of the customs officers apparently.
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- --
- Phil Fraering
- In the country of the blind....
- 60 minutes doesn't run stories about people trying to ban hearing
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