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The problem there is that half the time, NASA seems to be trying to find new ways/places to exploit. But what other large organizations (like NASA) are really trying to work on what we're doing here? Maybe I'm missing something here, so I'd like to be more informed. The EPA just really doesn't seem to have the funding nor the support as NASA does. They spend an exorbitant amount of money for tiles on a launch pad for a shuttle to go see if there's clean water somewhere else, but no one around here seems to be cleaning up their own messes or preventing new ones. Perhaps I am jaded, due to living in the middle of Maxwell House, Budweiser, Bacardi, military bases, gravel plants and paper mills. Even NASA was cited for problems with the "nature preserve" that they launch out of in Merritt Island about 6 or 7 years ago, if I remember correctly. I'm watching an alarming number of children in a certain area of town dying from cancer. Here, there are Head Start programs where the neighborhood actually become so angry at the EPA for allowing it to continue on polluted land that the EPA reps had to leave the town meeting because they couldn't record the conversations due to noise level. People are angry about the effects on other people, but leave out the effects on global warming and the environment. At least around here. Well, when the ice caps melt, Florida's a goner anyway.

/steps off soapbox and sits down.

Seeing that this is not the political forum, I won't get in to Jeb, Tecoyah. But you should see the environmental bills he's passing right now!

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