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Date:         Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:36:16 -0700
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From:         Ron Lussier <coyote@likeminds.com>
Subject:      Re: A true engineering hero: George Goble

At 01:23 PM 4/8/97 -0500, Lars Poulsen wrote: >- take a large barbecue >- put a burning cigarette at the bottom >- put 60 lbs of charcoal on top >- using a bucket at the end of a pole, pour 3 gallons of liquid oxygen > over it >- 3 seconds later, 40 lbs of the coal will have burned, and the grill > is ready. (It will also be very clean: All old grease will have burned > off).

Actually, I've seen this film, and there was very little left of the grill. There were a few fragments of metal, and a pile of ash, but that's it.

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