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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Advanced Weapons Research
Message-ID: <313@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 19:03:11 EDT
Article-I.D.: gymble.313
Posted: Thu Sep  5 19:03:11 1985
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  > From: speaker@gymble.UUCP (Speaker to Animals)
  > Message-ID: <302@gymble.UUCP>
  > 
  > In article <1569@trwrba.UUCP> heins@trwrba.UUCP (Michael T. Heins) writes:
  > >
  > > Many people are not aware of the following interesting fact:
  > >
  > > If you accelerate an ordinary cotton ball to 0.75 the speed
  > > of light in a vacuum, it is capable of completely vaporizing
  > > a normal size human head in less than 50 milliseconds.
  > 
  > This doesn't surpise me in the least.  What *I* want to know is...
  > "Can you accelerate a cotton ball to any significant velocity and punch
  > a nice clean hole through a human being's head?" . . .

I find it far more effective to accelerate my intended victim's head to
.75 the speed of light, and aim it at a brick wall. I did this to
Speaker once, and now all he does is post messages to net.bizarre.
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