Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: this morning ... Message-ID: <579@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 18:25:45 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-vax.579 Posted: Thu Aug 8 18:25:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 04:04:38 EDT References: <3182@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 19 In article <3182@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> brisco@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (T.p.) writes: >3) If I had put a hundreth of a mole (6.02x10^10) atoms of plutonium > in my coffee instead of a teaspoon of sugar, would the mist > have reached critical mass and exploded, thus ruining the > entire east coast of America? This is total BULL! First of all, a hundreth mole is NOT 6.02x10^10, but in fact about a heaping teaspoonful (+- .05%). Secondly anybody who took physics in high school knows that plutonium cannot reach critical mass on a weekday! The ignorance of the people on this net really gets me sometimes. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "I was going to say something really profound, but I forgot what it was." -Rev. Wang Zeep