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From: gfk@bridge2.3Com.Com (Gregory Kendall)
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Subject: Re: SR71 to be retired October 1st, rumors regarding SR-71
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Date: 27 Mar 89 23:49:27 GMT
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In article <4575@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dep@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (David Pugh) writes:

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>I'd be rather careful doing this. If you try it with a partially full
>bucket that has sat around for awhile, you may get a rather large explosion.
>A cigarette may not ignite liquid gasoline, but I'd be surprised if it
>couldn't touch off gasoline vapors.

Every time I have done this (thrown a lit cigarette into a bucket of gas)
it has been outside, sitting in the sun, sometimes for hours. 
The gasoline still does not ignite.