Shooting down 'Bandit Satellites'

[Brent Mattis]

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.

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