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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 13:08:32 -0500
To: Olly.Kierse@an*.co* ( oliver kierse )
From: Marc Dufour <mdufour@CA*.OR*>
Subject: Re: weight belts
Cc: techdiver@terra.net
At 09:48 AM 9/28/95 BST, you wrote:

...
>	However, this lead (pun intended) me to look at other materials that
>might have an application as weight belt materials.
...
>Mercury	    13546	Liquid - conforms to any shape. The EZ-on belt.
...
>Plutonium   21450	Very French. Tres chic on the South Pacific catwalks
>                        this autumn. 

   It's been very fashionable at Hiroshima too, for the last 50 years.

>Platinum    21450	Free with your complete collection of PADI merit badges
>                        and 25 logged dives - no exceptions. 

   Seriously, how about depleted uranium? It's been used several times to
weigh the keel of some racing sailboats.

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2: Passively self-arranging matter structures (crystals).
3: Actively self-replicating matter structures (biological organisms).
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