>The one thing that never made sense to me was that by blowing up the
>station, you create and disperse all that debris which then becomes a muc=
>h
>greater hazard to navigation than one big chunk

Except of course that nobody much goes by there anymore to begin with, which is
one of the main reasons for blowing it up, and 80% of the debris would be
pulled down by the local planet's gravity field and burn up the atmosphere.

jms

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