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From: wcr@branch.FIDONET.ORG (W.c. Rothanburg)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: An idea
Message-ID: <1401.251BA8CC@branch.FIDONET.ORG>
Date: 23 Sep 89 15:40:50 GMT
Organization: The Branch Office, Pompano Beach, Florida.  (305) 979-2073
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In an article of <21 Sep 89 00:46:02 GMT>, davek@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Kraft)  
writes:

 >Here's an idea I've been thinking about since Hugo seems to be destined 
 >to
 >smash into the east coast..
 >
 >If a shuttle has been rolled out, why can't they roll it out onto a 
 >platform
 >that goes down into the earrth to protect it? (kinda like a big 
 >elevator), and
 >then people on the surface could put tarps, ect. over the hole, and wait 
 >for
 >the storm to pass??
 >

And the Shuttle will be full of water, if Hugo was to stuke near the Cape.    
Most of Florida is low land, very easy to flood.  Then there woiuld be the   
design of a system of that, would it be able to stand the heat of a launch??

Bill
 



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