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   Message 104,853 of 106,651   
   Snidely to All   
   Re: OT: Planets   
   26 Sep 20 13:15:55   
   
   From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   David Spain pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
      
   > And as a last test and biggest affront yet to our reader's sensibilities   
   > and USENET etiquette I am replying to my own post!*   
   >   
   > Wouldn't a passenger jet airplane be safer to go into space? It doesn't   
   > catch fire every single time and can hold a lot of people. You can even   
   > get something to eat and drink.   
   >   
   > This is so obvious! What's wrong with you people?   
      
   It's the getting from one side of the terminal to the other that's the   
   big problem with a passenger jet airplane.   
      
   >   
   > *Because it hasn't been done yet...   
      
   Nothing new under the sun.   
      
   /dps   
      
   --   
   "That’s where I end with this kind of conversation: Language is   
   crucial, and yet not the answer."   
     Jonathan Rosa, sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist,   
   Stanford.,2020   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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