At 8:55 PM -0400 10/10/00, David Honig wrote:
At 03:09 PM 10/10/00 -0400, Tim May wrote:
And if you asked on the Cypherpunks list because you thought it would be cute to implicate us in nuclear weapons chatter, get a clue. If not, it was still the wrong place to ask such a question.
--Tim May
Lets see, radiation effects on matter... hmm, I bet TM knows something about that... U acts like Ca++, so watch your bones... anticipating that regular NM poster, stay upwind...blah blah..
Nukes are not cost or effort- effective, compared to CBWs...
"Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love uranium." I forgot to mention in my last message that another prime use of DU is for radiation shielding. No, not an example of Simpson's Paradox (not O.J.). Rather, DU absorbs very well, and only gives off very slight amounts of radiation. Uranium, either the ore, or the metal, or the depleted form, is remarkably harmless. I used to handle blocks of the stuff. One of my associates had some dice made out of DU...I always wanted a pair of these, but I never got my own set. Ah, the years of slaving away in the thorium mines... (A line out of a Heinlein juvenile, I vaguely recalled at the time. Something significant about learning about thorum, slide rules, and tensors from reading Heinlein novels in the 6th grade.) --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.