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Old 08-July-2005, 06:31 PM
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Default fix ozone hole with rockets?

Sorry, this is not astronomy per se, but I'm curious whether anyone has any links that address this.

Some research is showing that rocket launches harm the ozone layer:

Last Shuttle Flight Made Clouds Over Antarctica

Ozone-Eating Clouds Form in Cold Polar Rings

I am curious why I have never read any proposals to launch chemical bombs into the upper atmosphere to combat CFC damage (simply adding nitrogen, or chemicals to neutralize chlorine, I don't know). I'm guessing we don't understand the upper atmosphere well enough to play with it, but I don't know and it seems like some inexpensive rockets could get a payload up to where it needs to be and dump chemicals to counteract the effects of previous launches. [/url]
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Old 08-July-2005, 06:45 PM
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Sorry, this is not astronomy per se, but I'm curious whether anyone has any links that address this.
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Old 13-July-2005, 10:04 PM
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Here was a serious concept:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/enellite.htm


Another use for HLLV
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