From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 12:49:18 MST
Damien Broderick <thespike@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Officials are warning anyone who finds fragments to stay well clear, due to
> `lethal toxic fumes' from unburned fuel. Well, hmm, that sounds implausible.
> Is this just an attempt to prevent looting/souveniring of the flight
> recorder etc?
Probably, but note that the space shuttle's attitude jets burn
monomethyl hydrazine with nitrogen tetroxide, which are rather
noxious.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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