Keith Nagel wrote:
Whilst a rocket propelled laptop would be as exciting and saleable as a liquour propelled one, there would be some liability problems with the former that make the later more appealing (grin). Is there a twelve step program for my Dell Inspiron?
I was always partial to the famous rocket designer Bob Truax's formula, nitric acid and aniline. Makes a dandy hypergolic fuel. He did the first JATO device for the Navy with this, I think. Beat out Goddard who tried gasoline and LOX, all kinds of problems with that and it didn't autoignite.
Come to think of it, laptops and cellphones _do_ explode on occassion.
Say what???
Do you get any kind of hint before they let go, or does the phone just unexpectedly blow your head off in the middle of a conversation?
And regarding laptops, this definitely makes me feel a bit less sanguine about actually using the beast on my _lap_.
Cheap lithium batteries that build up elemental lithium aren't as fun as sodium, but it does the job. Never go cheap on batteries.
K.
