

| Subject: | Re: re; smog sympathies |
| From: | Bill |
| Date: | Sun, 1 Mar 1998 18:28:09 -0700 |
At 06:00 PM 3/1/98 EST, you wrote: >None! >Space shuttle exhaust is simply water vapor. They are combining >hydrogen with oxygen to get water. > >I think this is correct, someone correct me if I'm wrong. I was also >amazed to find that it's not pollution, it's water :-) You are right for liquid fueled rocket engines -- hydrogen and oxygen make water. It's not the same for the solid fueled rockets, and I don't know what kind of pollution they produce. I will find out and post it here, if anybody is interested. The shuttle uses solid rocket boosters. I was a bit amused by the argument that it's OK for me to pollute because some people do it more than I do. Let's see, a bunch of mass murderers have killed a lot of people, so if I only kill one or two... Bill (SE Arizona) (Bill@freeholder.com) HTTP://www.freeholder.com ---------------------------------------------------------- You can't do everything, but you can do something. You can't help everyone, but you can help someone. Even one candle helps to push back the darkness.
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