Better things for better living through Chemistry--DuPont Explosives.

>>> Dave Darnell <[log in to unmask]> 01/23 2:51 PM >>>
Now, if I could just remember that web site.... These guys had a contest
about the most spectacular way to ignite a barbeque full of charcoal.  The
winner saturated it in liquid oxygen....

BTW - Mr. McVeigh's methods were well documented decades earlier in the
DuPont Blaster's Handbook.

-d

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Boyd [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 3:32 PM
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: Re: OT: rotating blackouts ordered for NorthernCalifor nia
>
>
> ...so figuring out how to make things go "BOOM" using no/lo-tech isn't
> considered hi-tech?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Becker [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 2:23 PM
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: rotating blackouts ordered for
> NorthernCalifornia
>
> Joseph Rosenblatt wrote:
>
> >Idaho surely conjures up names of great hi-tech innovation like Ted
> Kaczynski.
>
> I thought that too, until I expressed that opinion, and was told in no
> uncertain terms that the bombs that Ted Kaczynski used to
> protest Hi-tech
> were made using Lo-tech, available to anyone with a Doctorate
> in Chemistry
> and an IQ over 170.
>