SPACE SHUTTLE A BAD IDEA IN THE FIRST PLACE

Every time the shuttle goes up the solid fuel rocket boosters spew millions of pounds of aluminum dust into the high atmosphere and ionosphere. Some of this aluminum never comes down.
     With 125 flights so far, that means there are millions of pounds of aluminum dust floating around up there blocking radio transmissions, sunlight etc.
     This continuing atmospheric pollution is brought to you thanks to the primeval "explosion" technologists at JPL, NASA, and Morton Thiokol.

        "Joe Six-Pack" goes along for each joyride, he  throws
64,000,000 empty beer cans out the window on the way.
                          (32 aluminum cans per pound)
       With 125 flights so far, that means there is the equivalent of
 8 BILLION EMPTY CANS FLOATING AROUND UP THERE.
               That's 8 BILLION.

        We are all here on Earth together, "stuck" here as the
   aryans might say ("white boys with short hair", Tom Hanks).

    All they want to do is build their firecrackers and try to launch themselves out of here back to "heaven",
    where their DNA makes them think they came from.
This is at the expense of every living thing on Earth.
 .             Good riddance, non bon voyage.