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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
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Subject: Re: Ship survivability (USS Midway)
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Date: 5 Jul 90 02:04:44 GMT
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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)

Some naive questions from someone who's never been in the Navy:

1. Standards  for  buildings on land  often  require a heat  detector in
every storeroom.  Why don't ships do this?  Would the  extra wiring pose
a greater threat than the earlier notice?  Would there be too many false
alarms?

2.  Why isn't Halon used?  It's used  in computer  rooms on land.   It's
supposed  to  quench  most fires at  a  concentration not (immediately?)
fatal  to people?   If it's  a  war,  the immediate danger  of  the ship
sinking is greater than the danger  of future cancers (the  Agent Orange
argument).  Note that I'm  not certain that Halon is  a long term hazard
to people.


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