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From: jimh@welch.jhu.edu (Jim Hoffman)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: oil well fires and shuttle tiles
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.151130.3822@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 15:11:30 GMT
Organization: Welch Medical Library, Baltimore Md.
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Just an idea. Scince fire needs oxygen to live, why not smother the flames
of the Middle East.  Build a dome structure that has shuttle tiles as the
interior wall.  For one, the flame will smother on its own smoke and combine
it with foam or water or what ever to cool it.  Two, the shuttle tiles 
enable a smaller structure because of its ability to handle heat soooooooo
well.  I have no idea what would go into  building it, but with the devistation that these
fires are to doing to our environment, some experimenting with all possiblities
seems to the thing to do!   

Jim       (jimh@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu)