From: Charlie Stross (charlie@antipope.org)
Date: Tue Jun 08 1999 - 06:33:47 MDT
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 05:58:13PM -0400, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
>
> Thats what I thought, but I was thinking of the problems with manufacturing and
> disposing of waste... Of course, the fact that the explosive effect exceeds its
> toxic effects would not hinder any protester from noting this fact and claiming
> it violates some law or human rights treaty or some such nonsense. You can never
> confuse those folks with the facts.
Ideology aside, have a cigar: the reason I suggested caesium was that
it's dense, and would tend to explode (then presumably fragment, and keep
on exploding) on contact with human bodies. Put it in a steel jacket or
something similar to hold it together until it hits the target ...
-- Charlie
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