Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'

Ken Brown k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Mon Mar 12 01:51:50 PST 2001


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