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- From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Oak heat shields
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 05:19:40 GMT
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- \I believe that what the Chinese are reported to be using is oak, not
- /bamboo. they are also reported to produce a lot of their space
- \hardware in a refrigerator factory, or soemthing like that. So much
- /for Western requirements for Level 100 cleanrooms.
-
- Back before the big cleanup I could have gotten you a good deal on
- enough oak to have retrieved a couple Skylabs intact; but we weren't
- able to sell it, the lumberyards don't take "windfalls" from people's
- yards, because they might have old nails and stuff in them... as if
- we don't know where all the nails are...
-
- It basically got hauled away with all the other fallen trees.
-
- \"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- / in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
-
- Yup. An industry too chicken(explicitave deleted) to learn about
- post-stone-age devices such as metal detectors turned our potential
- resource back into trash. I wonder how much they'd be paying for it
- if it were from virgin forest that species were driven extinct for
- instead of from our backyard.
-
- Needless to say, I think I now support efforts to save the Northern
- Spotted Owl. If the lumber mills don't want to live in the real world,
- and throw away (possible total for the area) tens of millions of dollars
- worth of good oak and pine in a time when everyone could have used
- financial help in the cleanup, then I don't want to either.
-
- God, I think you *could* have heat-shielded several Skylabs with that
- wood...
-
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- /Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
-
- Just so y'all don't think Mary wrote that...
- --
- Phil Fraering |"...Who in the valley shed the poison tear
- 318/365-5418 |no one knows...
- pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|An old legend of a mythical hero..."
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