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From: ec120bgt@sdcc3.UUCP (ANDREW VARE)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Smoking in public?
Message-ID: <2850@sdcc3.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 16:03:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 16:03:57 1985
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References: <473@nmtvax.UUCP> <917@trwatf.UUCP> <10555@brl-tgr.ARPA> <164@kontron.UUCP>
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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In article <164@kontron.UUCP>, brad@kontron.UUCP (Brad Yearwood) writes:
> > 
> > > Install a Halon system in the computer room.  Here at the ATF we have a
> > > fire-control system
> > 
> > If it is installed in accordance with the NFPA guidelines then...
> > 
> > > that will dump 1000 lbs of Halon at extreme
> > > pressure should the fire system detect even a whiff of smoke.  The
> > > Halon smothers the flames by eliminating all of the oxygen in the
> > > room.
> > 
> > Wrong, it requires two detectors to go off before it will dump the system.
> > In addition, HALON doesn not work by displacing the oxygen.  As a matter
> > of fact, they aren't quite sure how it works.  One theory is free radical
> > displacement, I'm not a chemist so I don't understand all what they are
> > describing.
> > Within 30
> > seconds there won't be enough oxygen in the room to support a poodle,
> > much less a human being.

Sounds good to me, I think poodles are right up there on the
all-time popularity list along with Pol Pot, Dr. Mengelo (Auschwitz)
Atilla the Hun, Howard Cosell, Dickless Buttons and Al Capone.
"run em over" I've always said.