Re: Cryonet Message #10564 - nanoassembly

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 23:23:03 -0700

>This caused me to flash on the solution to a vexing problem. When
>water and sewer lines are buried in a subdivision-under-
>construction, mischievous kids will often pull up the poles the crews
>use to mark their terminal connection points. They are then a real
>time-consuming bitch to relocate. If small radioactive isotopes are
>planted in the pipes' endcaps, they can be located with geiger
>counters.
>> --
>> Bernard J Hughes bernard@timedancer.com

Small transponder patches would also work. Just paste them on the end caps.

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