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In article , Guinnog65
writes "James Hart" wrote in message ... Guinnog65 wrote: "Peter Stickney" wrote in message ... In article , (B2431) writes: From: (Peter Stickney) Date: 9/20/2004 7:34 PM Central Daylight Time Message-id: In article , "Guinnog65" writes: "An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace." So, theoretically, anyone able to find them all and renovate them would be the world's seventh leading nuclear power? Anybody who could find them and renovate them would be able to make their own without going to all that effort. -- Pete Stickney The only part of value would be the plutonium. Does plutonium corrode in water? Yes. Nasty stuff water. It's pretty damned near the Universal Solvent. See for example www.dhmo.org DMHO was mentioned in a phone in on the radio recently regarding drugs use at the Olympics, the presenter got quite upset that the caller was accusing all of one particular nation's athletes of taking it, until someone mentioned what it was more commonly known as. Oh, it's also used in military aviation. (He says, trying not to get too far OT) Is fun to tweak uneducated greenies with their ingrained fear of 'chemicals' sometimes! Aircraft carriers float on it too. Is DHMO though- get it right! I've heard rumours (unsubstantiated) that brewers are putting it in beer. Mind you, considering some of the crap that they put in beer, it's not surprising. -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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"Peter Twydell" wrote in message
... In article , Guinnog65 writes "James Hart" wrote in message ... Guinnog65 wrote: "Peter Stickney" wrote in message ... In article , (B2431) writes: From: (Peter Stickney) Date: 9/20/2004 7:34 PM Central Daylight Time Message-id: In article , "Guinnog65" writes: "An estimated 50 nuclear warheads, most of them from the former Soviet Union, still lie on the bottom of the world's oceans, according to the environmental group Greenpeace." So, theoretically, anyone able to find them all and renovate them would be the world's seventh leading nuclear power? Anybody who could find them and renovate them would be able to make their own without going to all that effort. -- Pete Stickney The only part of value would be the plutonium. Does plutonium corrode in water? Yes. Nasty stuff water. It's pretty damned near the Universal Solvent. See for example www.dhmo.org DMHO was mentioned in a phone in on the radio recently regarding drugs use at the Olympics, the presenter got quite upset that the caller was accusing all of one particular nation's athletes of taking it, until someone mentioned what it was more commonly known as. Oh, it's also used in military aviation. (He says, trying not to get too far OT) Is fun to tweak uneducated greenies with their ingrained fear of 'chemicals' sometimes! Aircraft carriers float on it too. Is DHMO though- get it right! I've heard rumours (unsubstantiated) that brewers are putting it in beer. Mind you, considering some of the crap that they put in beer, it's not surprising. Don't B-52s use it for thrust augmentation? And Harriers? And that stuff has to go somewhere... I'm not surprised some of it ends up in beer, that explains a lot! |
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