Lawyers gone wild in the grade school science fair

My mom's _got_ a nauga... cute little thing. Sharp looking teeth, though.

PETA??

PETA??

Oh, you mean "People Eating Tasty Animals?"

Jeff

On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:31:28 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, Jon Anderson quickly quoth:

Hey, just because_you_ can't hear them scream doesn't mean...

Hey! Quit snickering! Do you know how many naugas it takes to make a single recliner?!?!? And the suffering they go through in their final hours on this earth? It's enough to make a strong man weep if you ever see it in person... Those poor little thing...

that's because they were phosphorescent pointers, not true radium sources. Radium has a REALLY long half life! Yes, I'm sure real radium dials are going to be REALLY hard to find, even by the late 70s. The Americium sources in smoke alarms make a good alpha source, and have a decent half life.

Jon

So? 8-)

You mocked my re-animation experiments! But I will show the world yet!

Of course - they have a website all about it.

(They shed their skins, you don't have to peel them)

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:33:09 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Bruce L. Bergman quickly quoth:

You've seen the signs on the way out of town, right? I've never seen one of the little critters, but my sig is to help them from becoming extinct.

-- Save the Endangered ROAD NARROWS! -|-

According to Andy Dingley :

You mean "L. Ron Hubbard"? The Science fiction author and the founder of Scientology?

Enjoy, DoN.

I guess that includes lawyers.

John

heres something that is funny ,as in funny i mean "It figures" ,most anybody out there remembers the oklahoma city bombing and the damage that was caused from fertilizer and diesel fuel,well here's the funny part ,the U.S. government back in the 30's gave out a booklet to farmers all over the country that told how to make that explosive and for free ,it was so farmers had a cheaper alternative to dynamite to blow out stumps since they already had these materials on hand

Really? How many diesel farm tractors can you name that were common in the US in the 30s?

The formula was in my high school chem textbook, circa 1968.

Perhaps you need to reread the original post more carefully, then read my response.

I'm in the UK, not the USA. We didn't have all that many diesel tractors at the time, but we had plenty of TVO tractors - Tractor/Traction Vapourising Oil. This is a low-compression spark-ignition engine that starts on petrol then switches to paraffin (kerosene) once warmed up.

Of the stationary engines, "heavy oil" engines probably outnumbered petrol. These would typically be semi-diesels, compression ignition with hot-bulbs.

You'll probably enjoy reading this article (Google will have it)

From: Chris Newsgroups: uk.rec.engines.stationary,uk.rec.waterways Subject: Re: A nice project for the Hot Bulb enthusiast? Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 21:37:12 -0400 Message-ID:

It doesn't have to be tractor fuel. There were a LOT of people who used kerosene for space heaters, lanterns, as a fire starter, utility solvent, etc. Plain kerosene would work just as well for the ANFO explosive. (Oh oh, hope DHS won't pay me a visit for this post!)

Jon

I am aware of TVO, I have several myself, albeit of US origin.

Tom

Yep, you're right, I should have noticed that kerosene is now spelt "diesel".