From: Michael Powers <mpowers@mad.scientist.com>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.arts.sf.written] Re: First Colony in Space (or Not!)
Date: 3 Mar 2000 02:14:19 GMT

Subject: Re: First Colony in Space (or Not!) 
From: Pete McCutchen <p.mccutchen@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written

On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:18:07 GMT, Matt Ruff / Lisa Gold
<Storytellers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>> So again ... if our fear of nuclear reactors be rational, why aren't
>> we also trying to ban planes or cars?
>
>Who said anything about the fears being rational? But if you have an
>*irrational* fear about being exposed to radiation in a nuclear plant
>meltdown, you can't simply "refuse to ride," as you could with a plane
>or car. If you're anywhere downwind, the boogeyman radiation will get
>you, so the only sure safeguard is to prohibit the building of the
>reactor in the first place.

The only way I can prevent being exposed to the h-beams emitted by
homosexuals engaging in depraved sexual acts is to rigorously enforce
laws against homosexual sodomy.