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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8733)	8/12/2008 1:53:35 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 15990

For one, it's a misconception that Hydrogen had anything to do with the Hindenburg tragedy. It's been demonstrated that the doping use on the canvas skin was quite likely the culprit. It goes to far to say that it has nothing to do with it. The hydrogen did burn, even if it wasn't the direct cause. But any flammable substance can burn and any fuel is going to be very flammable. If hydrogen was the direct cause, it still wouldn't imply that we shouldn't use it as fuel, any more than a tanker truck burning means we shouldn't use gasoline as fuel. At most it shows that we shouldn't use it as the lift gas for lighter than air ships (and even here its a weaker argument than most people think). In short my opinion about hydrogen as a fuel has just about nothing to do with the Hindenburg event. I don't think TV's or DVD sales impact the consumer in the same fashion as petrochemicals Your specific statement was not that we shouldn't import high impact or important things (which BTW I also would not agree with), but that we should keep "money here at home, and not in the hands of nations/entities that might use it as a weapon against us". That's not an argument about the importance of the good, but about what might be done with the money we pay for the good. China indirectly uses the money from those TVs and DVD players to support its military industrial complex, which builds weapons which may be used against us. Not that I'd advocate cutting off or even cutting down trade with China, but if you want to cut off any trade with countries that may use the wealth they gain from it to build weapons against us, I think you would have to support cutting off trade with China.

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