Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] nuclear psub?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

Probrobly the biggest reason why this group has so few conflcits is
because we leave politics at the door.

No problem from me Dale.  I was curious, that's all.
Carl


> "Dale A. Raby" wrote:
> 
> Gentlemen:
> 
> a.  Nothing thus far discussed on this thread would bear reporting to
> anyone.
> 
> b.  If, however, I seriously believed that someone in Chicago had a
> quantity of fissionable material,  was planning to actually put
> together an unlicensed nuclear fission reactor to power his Psub...
> and possibly operate it in the very body of water I live near the
> shore of, you're damned right I'd report him... though probably not to
> my CO, that would be more like FBI territory.  They'd haul him off to
> a loony bin for his own protection.
> 
> c.  Now, if this disturbs anyone... too bad.  Nuclear technology is
> controlled... and for good reasons, as everyone here is well aware of,
> and it really is that simple when you have the pioneers to tell you
> how they did it.
> 
> One other issue... anyone can read, and I'd really hate to see this
> get shut down... a very definite possibility in the current
> geopolitical climate... if this thread should ever go past the
> discussion stage.  We, all of us, dreamers as well as doers, need to
> self-regulate.... lest someone else be appointed to regulate us.
> 
> I do not speak with any authority save that which any citizen has, and
> if you all want me gone... let me know... as soon as I get five votes
> I'll unsubscribe myself.
> 
> As to Saddam... well, he'll soon cease to be an issue, I suspect.
> 
> Now... quicklime and seawater?  I think I got a B and a U...
> 
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:31, Doc wrote:
> 
> > Interesting thread guys, but why would terrorist go through the risk and hassle and expense
> > of building a nuke when they've been so successful using box cutters, rubber dinghies and fertilizer?
> > Paranoia is terrorism's best weapon!
> >
> > How about a quicklime and seawater powered sub?
> >
> > Anybody got a BINGO yet?
> >
> > Doc
> >
> >
> >
> > Coalbunny wrote:
> >
> > > Exactly Nero.  Scary part is that it really is THAT simple to make fuel
> > > for a nuke weapon.
> > > Carl
> > >
> > > > Nero Wolfe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I was at the University of Chicago today and i saw the monument to
> > > > enrico firmi's CP-1.  Chicago Pile 1 was a big pile of graphite and
> > > > unenriched uranium...  Litterally a pile.  This got me thinking...
> > > > A reactor is disturbingly simple.  I think you know where I'm going on
> > > > this....  The technology is simpler than cartsens boat...
> > >
> > > --
> > > "You delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in an answer
> > > it gives to a question of yours, or the question it asks you, forcing
> > > you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx." -- Kublai
> > > Khan
> >

-- 
"You delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in an answer
it gives to a question of yours, or the question it asks you, forcing
you to answer, like Thebes through the mouth of the Sphinx." -- Kublai
Khan