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  • From: "Eckert, Robert G SPC MIL USA FORSCOM" <robert.g.eckert AT us.army.mil>
  • To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion" <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy quoted in today's NY Times: Gauging a Collider’s Odds of Creating a Black Hole
  • Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:25:51 -0500


Makes me wonder what else is out there.

Just spent a week in the field with an EOD (Explosive Ordinance Destruction)
battalion. They have enough to worry about already.

CPL Eckert


----- Original Message -----
From: Wade Riddick
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 20:28
Subject: Re: [percy-l] Walker Percy quoted in today's NY Times: Gauging a
Collider’s Odds of Creating a Black Hole
To: "Percy-L: Literary and Philosophical Discussion"

> I'm aware of one instance of self-censorship that occured in the
> wake of
> 9/11. A scientist working on explosives gave up research into
> aluminumnanopowders. The explosive potential of a substance
> increases according to
> the surface area it has to react with oxygen when it combusts. Using
> nanomachining techniques, it's theoretically possible to churn out
> a small
> amount of highly porous aluminum compounds with extremely high
> explosivepotential. It would be virtually impossible to detect by
> airport screeners.
>
>
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>
> Visit the Walker Percy Project at http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy
>




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