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

"peachy a****e passion" <exquisitepeach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Jason Maxwell wrote:
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> > "Jette" <bosslady@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>Thanatos wrote:
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> >>>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]
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> >>>>>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]
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> >>>>>>>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.
> >>
> >
> > Nah, that's just the population of Phoenix for 8 months of the year.
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> > Jason
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>    Hey!  It's that or death.
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>    YOU go out and watch your brain sizzle in the heat - I'll pass!
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There's a reason I moved to Denver before summer this year

Jason