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From: "A.Appleyard" <A.APPLEYARD@fs*.mt*.um*.ac*.uk*>
To: techdiver@terra.net
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 08:45:45 GMT
Subject: what liquid to fill things with?: an odd choice

Of the various liquids chosen as incompressible fillers, I hereby do NOT
recommend a choice that Cousteau and Picard made once! They dived in a
`bathyscaphe', which is a hollow steel ball with a float. The float needed to
be filled with something incompressible, so they chose petrol (= gasoline)!!!
OK, it worked. But that stuff has another well-known hazardous property
somewhat connected with its use as a handy ingredient for flamethrower fuel.
Thank %^&%**&^** when it leaked on the surface once it didn't catch fire. This
is one case where not all the `flamage' would be on email computer screens!!!

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