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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #1 on: 01/10/2006 09:04 pm »
Don't you just love these "anti-nuclear" protestors - how many years has Pluto-Kuiper/New Horizons been planned? Five? Six? Yet they wait until NOW, with a week to go, the spacecraft built, the rocket assembled and on the pad, before they start hauling out the banners, donning the gas masks and playing dead.

Pathetic. Aren't these people EXCITED? I am!

I just wish the journey didn't take so long (I'll be nearly 40 when it arrives at Pluto!)

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #2 on: 01/10/2006 09:05 pm »
...No offence intended to any 40-year-olds out there, of course ;-)

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #3 on: 01/10/2006 10:18 pm »
i'll be 25 :)

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #4 on: 01/10/2006 11:25 pm »
I must admit, I don't like the idea of something going wrong during launch, and having a beast like that landing quite literally in my backyard. Australia is in the firing line in case something goes wrong, which means, directly or not, New Zealand is too. Whilst I admit that the research from this craft outweighs the risks during launch, I'll be glad to see the launch gone.

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #5 on: 01/11/2006 12:15 am »
I honestly do not feel these protesters understand much about the subject they protest. It's that simple.
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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #6 on: 01/11/2006 08:26 pm »
Surely these anti-nuclear protestors, if they truly believed in their noble cause, would do better protesting against Iran's nuclear ambitions and the views of its hardline president. Difference is that in America, or elsewhere in the 'normal' world, they have a forum for their grievances, however foolish those grievances are...


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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #7 on: 01/12/2006 10:34 am »
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Ben E - 10/1/2006  5:05 PM

...No offence intended to any 40-year-olds out there, of course ;-)

heheh...I already have 25 years on those young whippersnappers...40 years old...that was the good old days for me.

Best regards Ben!  And keep up the good work...I look forward to your posts,

Larry

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #8 on: 01/12/2006 04:57 pm »
Rocket Nut,

You've cheered me up! You're as old as you feel, agreed, although my fiance constantly reminds me with a smug grin that I'll be 30 before year's end ;-)

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #9 on: 01/13/2006 11:29 am »
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Ben E - 11/1/2006  3:26 PM

Surely these anti-nuclear protestors, if they truly believed in their noble cause, would do better protesting against Iran's nuclear ambitions and the views of its hardline president. Difference is that in America, or elsewhere in the 'normal' world, they have a forum for their grievances, however foolish those grievances are...


Good point. A bit like the idiots that protested against the war in Iraq because of the "poor Iraqis". They didn't give a s--t when Saddam was murdering them, so what's their problem now?

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #10 on: 01/13/2006 12:00 pm »
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Ben E - 12/1/2006  5:57 PM
You're as old as you feel, agreed, although my fiance constantly reminds me with a smug grin that I'll be 30 before year's end ;-)
Remember what Groucho Marx said: "A man is as old as the woman he feels."

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #11 on: 01/14/2006 04:58 pm »
Are the protesters still at KSC, or has this all calmed down now?

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RE: US warns world of Pluto probe's nuclear payload
« Reply #12 on: 01/15/2006 02:33 pm »
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Jamie Young - 14/1/2006  12:58 PM

Are the protesters still at KSC, or has this all calmed down now?

The only protesters I see as I drive around KSC are the Boeing strikers.  I don't think the anti-nuclear people found any support.  The striking workers aren't finding any support either...usually only one or 2 people and a lot of signs and banners.

Regards,

Larry

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