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From: roberts@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Timothy Roberts)
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Subject: Re: USSR and the Moon [was "Beyond the Energia crisis"]
Keywords: Soviet/American shuttle comparison
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Date: 24 Dec 88 10:32:52 GMT
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In article <286@internal.Apple.COM> ems@Apple.COM (Mike Smith) writes:
>Take a 5 lb bag of flour (Bleached white or Whole Wheat...)  Put it on
>top of a tuna fish can full of explosive.  Place on floor of 12ft square
>shed.  Light fuse and run away.  The flour is dusbursed into the air,
>then the dust/air mix explodes violently.  The fuel doesn't burn well
>until it is disbursed into the oxidizer, then it detonates.

Try taking an Estes "D12" model rocket engine and four bags of Nifda non-
dairy creamer to a remote site, preferably grass free.  Run the engine/
igniter assembly nozzle first through the bottom of a 13 oz. coffee can. 
Level the can/engine "tube" pointing upward, add creamer, string out a lot
of wire to your launcher switch and fire.  Awe inspiring mushroom cloud
to lighten up any party is produced with lovely caramel odor.  I do not
recomend you try this with strong winds or sane mind.

Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art), Svetaketu!      Tim (Rein und Raus) Roberts