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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
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 18:25:45 1985
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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