Subject: Re: Atomic Cars
From: wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.science, rec.arts.sf.written

In article ,
Wim Lewis said:

> In article ,
> William December Starr wrote:
>
>>> The point turned on whether this was even remotely plausible;
>>
>> It isn't. You can pump vaporized uranium into an air-filled
>> cylinder and spark at it all day and it'll still never ignite.
>
> Silly person. Uranium is pyrophoric --- putting vaporized, or even
> pulverized, uranium in the cylinder with air will cause it to
> ignite on its own. Atomic cars are clearly diesels.

It will? Crap, another brilliant bon mot undermined by petty reality.

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