thermite is not what you think, it is; it's primary use is for dismantling steel frameworks, piece by piece, just as they were welded -- see the report by MIT's Head Welder.
thus: there, you've hit upon the self-same absurdity of Newton's "theory" of corpuscles, vis-a-vu waves of light in the non-vacuum of space (unconsciously .-) thus quoth: Does every dust speck have gravitons? And if not, how do the specks know... "which way the mass is"? --BP's cap&trade "free-er trade nostrum" is before Senate! http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-8-the-permian-basin-gang/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list