Re: Fears that Supercollider may destroy the Earth. (MSNBC)

"Jette" <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Thanatos wrote:
>> In article <g6KdnYKtX4-7X2fanZ2dnUVZ_vamnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>  "Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "Thanatos" <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> news:atropos-57E433.20522607042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> In article <ANIM8Rfsk-3393CA.07433407042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>
>>>>> In article <atropos-B67A93.06190307042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>  Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>>>> There aren't just holes. They actually built most of
>>>>>> the circular tunnel ring. When the project was canceled,
>>>>>> I always thought they should have used the existing tunnel
>>>>>> as a prison. It could have housed hundreds of thousands of
>>>>>> inmates.
>>>>> Single file.  :)
>>>> Heh. No, I figured they could just line the tunnel ring
>>>> with cells, one after the other, and put the cafeteria/exercise
>>>> yard, etc. in the middle. With a cir***ference of 64 miles
>>>> and allowing about 10 feet per cell, that would make it a
>>>> 33,792-bed prison (double it if you stick bunk beds in each
>>>> one and make it two to a cell). And there's the added
>>>> benefit of riot control: if they get out of hand, you can
>>>> just start filling the whole thing in with dirt.
>>>>
>>>> Of course I'm sure the libs would howl hysterically and
>>>> incessantly about how "cruel" it would be to house people
>>>> underground and whatnot.
>>> Um, in a desert environment, underground is actually cooler than
above.
>>
>> Well, I was thinking more along the lines of never seeing the sun or 
>> breathing fresh air.
>>
>
> Some people don't anyway - air-conditioned cars, air conditioned
offices, 
> air conditioned homes, air conditioned indoor shopping malls - dash from

> one to the other, hiding from the daylight in case they get skin cancer.
>
>
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> Jette Goldie
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The Sun ... it burns!

-- Ken from Chicago