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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

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Re: Z-Machine - Zero to 76,000 mph/under 1 second

http://www.livescience.com/technology/0 … tml]*...50 times faster than a rifle bullet

*Wow.  Fastest "gun" in the West...and the entire world, for that matter.

Lots of this is entirely new to me.

Article says this technology will help to learn more about the extreme conditions found in the interiors of our Solar System's gas giants.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)