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From: rimey@ernie.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (Ken &)
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Subject: Re: What's All This, Then (Workshop on Exploding Particle Accelerators)
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 15:15:35 EST
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In article <1987@orca.UUCP> kendalla@orca.UUCP (Kendall Auel) writes:
>When the first nuclear bomb was exploded by the Manhattan project, there was
>a pool started to predict the force of the explosion. One scientist predicted
>that most of New Mexico would be wiped off the face of the Earth.
>
>Another scientist predicted that the reaction could not be halted, and would
>eventually consume the entire planet,

Enrico Fermi.  It was a joke.

>perhaps continuing to destroy the entire Universe!!!!!!

This doesn't sound right.

					Ken Rimey