I really really doubt the enzyme responsible for catalysis would survive ten seconds of high grade peroxide. Peroxide I think is a dead end, its a low energy fuel, w/ two products, water and oxygen. The oxygen is high energy, perfect for oxidizing another fuel, but you would have to worry about the water suppressing that reaction. alpha

From: Ken Brown <k.brown@ccs.bbk.ac.uk> Reply-To: cypherpunks@ssz.com To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com Subject: CDR: Re: Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites' Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:51:50 +0000

David Honig wrote:

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At 07:11 PM 3/11/01 -0500, Jim Windle wrote:

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According to Friday's Wall Street Journal spot platinum last closed at $588 per ounce and is up from $473 per ounce one year ago.

Fer chrissakes you can use a number of cheaper chemicals. For those

annoying

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satellite launches that you have to field-improvise, blood can be used to decompose peroxide :-)

Oh, all you want is enzymes then? I bet we can rig something up with bacteria. When it comes to making chemicals - well, chemicals without annoying heavy metals in them anyway - microbiology is your friend. Things that want nothing more than to reproduce themselves 3 times an hour tend to be quite easy to get hold of in bulk :-) Kinder to the neighbours as well, unless you are in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Sudan in which case those nice men from the Pentagon will be sending a cruise missile your way as soon as they hear that you are getting into production scale.

On the other hand I had this vague idea that peroxide sort of decomposed itself. And I bet burnt protoplasm buggers up the exhaust nozzles no end.

Ken Brown

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