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Re: OT: French Fries are now Freedom Fries? Bomb Link
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Tom Emerson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Emerson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:02:44 -0800
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On Tuesday 11 March 2003 2:21 pm, Guy Avenell wrote:
> At the bottom of the Freedom Fries page there was a link to this article:
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/11/sprj.irq.moab/index.html
> MOAB, privately known in military circles as "the mother of all bombs,"
    [...]
> But it's still not a WMD?

Of course not -- even though the device explodes, the MASS of the bomb isn't
destroyed, merely spread extremely thinly across a huge area... [well,
perhaps *some* entropy enters the equation and thus some "mass" is lost as it
gets converted to energy] :) :) :)

OTOH, if you were to detonate such a device in a perfect vacuum [deep space?]
and yet contain every particle expelled from the explosion, I'm sure you'll
find that the total mass of any such "dust" will be very close to the
original mass of the device...

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