OT - Mission Completed

Why didn't they shoot it down first? That would have been a really good story.

They didn't want to risk their shoot-down missle being shot down by our anti-anti-satellite weaponry.

You never read Spy-vs-Spy?

ROTFLOL!!!

You really need to write a humor book about day-to-day life, news stories and politics, HeyBub.

One of the best features of "Mad Magazine". ;-)

Does that publication still exist? I've not read it in over 20 years...

I think the one mag' I miss the most is "OMNI".

I'll most likely share some of his anecdotes in time.

I start San Marcos CPA tuesday night. :-) Got the call my app' was accepted a couple of days ago.

I'll post a running report as I have time...

I'm still working on "Toilet Tissue Origami - The Ultimate Book for the John."

My marketing plan is to first offer it to up-scale hotels at $100/copy. You've been in a zillion hotels where the toilet tissue is terminated in a point, like an arrow-head. This attention to detail is supposed to designate "class," hoi poloi, and a service to the elite.

Well, what if you had to take care of business and were greeted by a SWAN?

Or maybe a PIRATE SHIP, complete with movable sails and rudder? Maybe a FROG that really HOPPED? Heck, I suspect people would start stealing toilet tissue instead of towels!

But it's slow going. Every heard of "Death by a 1000 Cuts?" Paper can be dangerous.

No canons? What a cheap dive!

Ever see the videos of Soviet rocket test failures? In one case, a first stage failed to ignite. Engineers swarmed the gantry, but they didn't turn off the timer that was supposed to ignite the second stage. It did. I will never forget the images of dead men running through a cloud of burning hydrazine.

David

You're right that hydrazine is also *monergolic* if catalyzed by platinum (as is hydrogen peroxide). It doesn't release as much energy breaking down as it does when it reacts with nitric acid.

Also, hydrazine isn't hypergolic with 20/80 oxygen/nitrogen (air), as is (e.g.) white phosphorus.

It is, however highly toxic even in low concentrations

-- Ed

If you can get paper cuts from plonkwipe, you must have really upper- class skin. Read "The Princess and the Pee"..

-- Ed