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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 08:04:14 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1993Jan24.202500.2302@truffula.sj.ca.us> <1993Jan24.230504.22770@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <C1Dvpn.92G@world.std.com> <59085@dime.cs.umass.edu>,<JMC.93Jan24215137@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.93Jan24215137@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- >I'm sure that plutonium is considered valuable at Sellafield, so the
- >quantities release are as "trace" as they can make it.
-
- Sorry, John, but your argument is pure bullshit. You're basing it on
- economics. The appropriate conclusion is:
- The value of the quantities released does not, at the margin, exceed
- the cost of recovering that plutonium.
- This does *NOT* mean that the quantities released "are as `trace' as they can
- make it." Back to undergraduate microeconomics with you.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
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- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
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