Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!sesame!slerner From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: Chile Agrees to Provide Easter Island for Emergency Landings Message-ID: <251@sesame.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 10:59:57 EDT Article-I.D.: sesame.251 Posted: Mon Aug 5 10:59:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Aug-85 05:02:18 EDT References: <4102@alice.UUCP> <383@im4u.UUCP> Organization: Lotus Development Corp Lines: 31 [] [If this is a duplicate, sorry...postnews took a hit 1st time around.] > In article <4102@alice.UUCP> alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) writes: > >The U.S. and Chile today signed an eight year pact under which > >Chile will allow NASA to modify the runway on Easter Island for > >use in case of an emergency shuttle landing there. > > A while back someone posted an article stating that the giant heads on Easter > Island would be in danger if the runway on the island was extended. Does > anybody know if this is still true? > > -- > David K. Bradley > Maybe they are afraid the heads will get stiff necks watching all the traffic come and go... -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner slerner%sesame@harvard.ARPA