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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2462)	12/29/2000 6:19:34 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 12231

Nice post, Mqurice. And just think, the new-fangled stuff that has you amazed will be the equivalent of the steam engine in a few years. Yes, the capacity of humans to innovate is absolutely incredible. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of our collective abilities is that we are on a never-ending quest to understand our Universe and how operates from both macro and a micro aspects. The asteroids bearing bacteria and DNA which probably gave life to our Earth and to us (not the proverbial primordial soup) suggests a process which is devilishly akin to sexual reproduction. Think about it: All those tiny asteroids bearing DNA travelling in outer space, carrying with them only an infinitesimally small chance of landing in a propitious environment, actually do make it to our beautiful green/blue globe and start life as we know it. Seems very similar to a cloud of sperm travelling huge distances to a far-away egg, with virtually no chance of reaching the goal. I don't know the significance of this but I must admit it has me wondering. I'm sure my sense of wonder at this seemingly parallel process is no different than the sense of wonder that has lead some respected physicists to suggest that the Universe is nothing but a huge, complex computer. The beautiful thing about it is that we know what's happening and we are becoming increasingly aware of the rules of macro and micro physics and how they apply to our living selves. And we probably don't know beans yet. Happy New Year and New Millenium.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (2462)	12/29/2000 9:04:06 PM
From: S100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

<I suspect Michael McDermott> Here are some posts made by him, seems to write very well and knows a lot about explosives. I have read several of them so far. Sample post. --- Author: Michael M. McDermott <mucko@mediaone.net> "bob" <nomail@nospam.com> wrote in message news:RQWt5.1817$uS6.329272@dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net... > > uberchlor wrote in message <8p98h2$t90$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... > > > > >Doing it was even funner. > > I remeber my first experience with sodium... (about a decade ago, fortunatly > I have learned to be much more prudent since then) > I ordered several one pound bricks, and took one over to a friends house how > had a lake on his property. > I opened up the first tim of sodium (stored under argon) and cut off a small > (maybe 10 gram) piece with a sharp knife > tossed it in the water, and nothing muich happened. it fizzled arounda > little, so i figured, 'to hell with it' and tossed the rest of the block > in.... > about the time where the 1 pound block left my fingertips, the small chunck > went with a fairly health 'pop', luckily my friend and I were far enough > away to avoid any injurys formt he much louder 'pop' that followed.... > Did something similar myself, back when Neptunium was a variety of Uranium. My ill-chosen companions and I discovered that rubbing bars of sodium and potassium together (under an inert gas, fortunately) produced a liquid alloy. We had pretty much exhausted the university's supply of the alkali metals before the fun wore off (remember, we were young.) Slowly, the realization dawned upon us that we must dispose of the evidence. Fortunately, one of my simian accomplices voiced the thought that "Pouring it down the drain might be a bad thing." So, we bottled it up, pulled it from the dry box, and, under cover of darkness, hiked it out to the local bridge. Before consigning it to the briny deep, we popped it open so we could "Hear if it fizzles when it hits the water." You know, 'surprised' can be an alarmingly inadequate word. ------ x76.deja.com[ST_rn=ap]/dnquery.xp?search=word&LNG=ALL&firstsearch=1&defaultOp=and&query=%7ea%20mucko@mediaone.net%20%26%20%7eg%20alt.engr.explosives&svcclass=dnserver&ST=PS&CONTEXT=977963700.327286886