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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 1997 15:31:38 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, Screwinup <screwinup@aol.com>, saar-lists-freebsd-hackers@uunet.uu.net
Subject:   Re: Anarchists decry 72lbs plutonium launch 
Message-ID:  <199708250601.PAA01765@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Aug 1997 22:04:47 MST." <Pine.OSF.3.96.970824220127.28418F-100000@sag.space.lockheed.com> 

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> >> PPPS: It's people like you what cause unrest.
> 
> The big coverup is this:  at NASA during launch they don't teach you to
> even really worry about the Plutonium!  Naw...they teach you to fear
> the giant ominous orange cloud of hydrazine propellant after a launch
> failure...traces of plutonium dust will kill you nice and slow.  Hydrazine
> works *much* more effectively!

Damn, and I was trying to make the stuff with my Toys-R-Us chemistry 
set.  You mean it's not only explosive? 8)

mike





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