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Subject:Re: A true engineering hero: George Goble
From:Ron Lussier
Date:Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:36:16 -0700

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.

Coyote
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