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From: Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<<
Date: 1999/02/16
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kevin@woldnospam.com wrote:
> 
> In article <36C8A705.597D432A@planet8.tds-eagan.lmco.com>, Alan says...
> >
> 
> >
> >I personally think chopping down trees is swell if it's done to make
> >houses or even good-looking spice racks for people.
> 
> no, killing trees, even if Ada is used for this, is not good.
> 
> without trees, we all will die. becuase trees make O2, which we need
> to breath. Also tree are pretty. It is bad to kill trees. Build your
> house from steel or stone or concrete.
> 

Ridiculous!  Trees are just as much an agricultural product as
wheat or corn.  Following your logic I should eat seaweed rather
than bread because the fields of grain are too pretty to cut down?

And with more than twice as many trees now growing in America as
there were in the 1600s, we are not in any danger of running out
anytime soon.

(remainder snipped)

> keven

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Scott Ingram
Sonar Processing and Analysis Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory