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Gas is cheaper in 2006 than it was in 1965, when it was 50cUS/US gallon.

"What? Are you CRAZY?!!"
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Remember that movie they showed you of what the Earth looked like taken
from the Moon, showing the big blue marble? A few years ago, the REST of
the movie escaped NASA to show how it was done. As the "show" ended the
idiot astronauts forgot to cut off the tape recorder. When they turned
the lights back on in the spacecraft, you could see the blue surface of
the planet out the ROUND porthole as they removed the black mask from
around it, put there for the "show". Now, with the lights back on, you
can also see the bulkhead and stuff around the porthole you couldn't see
in the blackout of the "show" for TV. They were in Earth orbit over the
ocean during the taping....(c; Too funny.

LOL! Thanks for the laughable hypothesis. It's a bit contradictory,
though. Any astronauts orbiting sufficiently high to take photos
showing the whole earth would be orbiting right in the middle of the
Van Allen Belts! Wouldn't that fog your film!

Even Van Allen himself doesn't think the belts present a great risk
to the astronauts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt

http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/waw/mad/mad19.html

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Mark Borgerson