At 12:23 AM 12/19/02 -0500, William Taylor wrote:
In a message dated 12/18/2002 9:42:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:> Maybe next year they can have the same 99 planes and add the space > shuttle as the 100th example of flight evolution... Oh, you mean an orbital flyover. Maybe they could carry iron oxide, magnesium, and beryllium pellets to "drop". [Did I get the metals right?] >Depends on what you plan for it to do with them. Red white and blue meteors with no meteorites.
Strontium makes a good red flame.
Magnesium indeed burns with a white flame, though it would probably overwhelm everything else.
Copper makes a blue-green flame.
See <<http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/cgi-bin/splitwindow.cgi?top=http://www.glencoe.com/sec/science/top2.html&link=http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Ekempmp/colours.html>> for a discussion of what is used in fireworks to make variously colored "stars".
BTW, in your original list, if you change "beryllium" to "aluminum", you have the ingredients of thermite.
Though when I read "beryllium", my first thought was "Where's the plutonium"?
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see Dr. Jerry Pournelle at a Temperance Meeting.
I never have, though I have seen him in need of one.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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