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From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Our continuing plan to blow up the Earth...
Message-ID: <123@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-May-84 16:27:27 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 16:27:27 1984
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle
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2 May 1984

     The center of a planet is likely to contain a high concentration
of uranium and thorium.  They are heavy and sink to the middle of planets
with fluid cores.  Now Star Wars was set "A long, long time ago".  U-235
has a shorter half-life than U-238, thus the concentration was higher earlier
in the life of your average planet.  Far enough back, it would have been
a fissionable mix.

     Now, what you do is fire a VERY high power laser at the planet.  This
bores a hole to the center.  Now fire a pulse of neutrons into the core,
which causes a small (relatively) detonation from enhanced fission.  This
blows a hole in the middle of the planet, compressing the remainder of the
core.  As the density increases, the rest of the material fissions.

     KABLOOEY!

P.s.  Hi, Peter. How do I send messages to you directly?

                                                     Dani Eder
                                                     Boeing Aerospace
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