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To: BDR who wrote (5816)	12/31/1999 12:45:00 PM
From: Druss	Respond to of 10293

Dale--My faith in 'Nature' is restored. By luck I am familiar with the Ig Nobel prize. It is given for questionable science. Sometime back a friend sent me this site: ghg.ecn.purdue.edu It is the homepage for one George Goble, a physicist at University of Purdue. He won the 1996 Ig Nobel price in chemistry for lighting 40 pounds of charcoal in three seconds. [Near instant readiness to barbeque.] He used five gallons of liquid oxygen and a lit cigarette to get it going. George was a better sport about it and accepted his Ig Nobel prize. Nature was just reporting on the humorous side of science. All the Best Druss