On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:10:40PM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Sipke de Wal wrote:
>
> > Alcohol vapourises quickly ! Over in the Netherlands we've got
> > Spiritus which is a rather non-agressive 75% alcohol
> > (ethanol+methanol) solution with some analine added to make it
> > undrinkable. (It's got a blueish color).
>
> If it has methanol in it, it doesn't need anything added to make it
> undrinkable. Methanol causes blindness, ulcerated stomach, then death.
True, but there will still be some lusers trying to drink the stuff. To
keep father Darwin from dealing with those, usually some sufficiently
vile tasting (and very hard to remove) agent is added. Yes, there _have_
been incidents of soldiers drinking rocket fuel (where this was simply
alcohol) and getting blind/dying from it (reportedly from the russian
army).
Regards,
Alex.
--
We're gonna be body guards for teen rock-stars. Wouldn't the cause of freedom
be better served if we killed them instead?
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Received on Wed Apr 17 2002 - 16:22:06 BST