Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
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Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
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Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#2There are a number of submissions relating to the author and their blog, though from numerous sources. Informative, entertaining, and cautionary.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#3Also see Ignition, a book on the history of rocket fuel development, which is a great read: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#4This is from Derek Lowe's blog "In The Pipeline" on the pharmaceutical industry via chemistry, and it's the best.
It's bounced around a couple hosts over the years, and sadly this latest incarnation on science.org doesn't preserve the tags from the original.
Nevertheless, look up "Derek Lowe things I won't work with" for a great and hilarious series of posts on "fun" chemicals.
For example:
* Peroxide Peroxides:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
* Dioxygen Difluoride, or FOOF to its frenemies (let's put the two strongest oxidants together just for fun):
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
* Triazadienyl Fluoride:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#5Also see Ignition, a book on the history of rocket fuel development, which is a great read: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
I don’t know if anyone has confirmed this explicitly, but it’s a likely assumption that Ignition! went back in to print after many years of unavailability precisely because of all the interest stirred up by this post.
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#6I was hoping that maybe this was somehow about Dune.
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#7I was hoping that maybe this was somehow about Dune.
Well, this spicy stuff is also an interplanetary spaceship propellant, and prolonged exposure to the gaseous form will certainly mutate you.
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#8Also see Ignition, a book on the history of rocket fuel development, which is a great read: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
I don’t know if anyone has confirmed this explicitly, but it’s a likely assumption that Ignition! went back in to print after many years of unavailability precisely because of all the interest stirred up by this post.
Paperback or Kindle available from Amazon.
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#9Other times it didn't:
Sand won't save you this time (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432201 - July 2019 (30 comments)
Sand Won't Save You This Time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5656994 - May 2013 (1 comment)
Sand Won't Save You This Time: the story of chlorine trifluoride - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532278 - March 2009 (4 comments)
Re: Sand won’t save you this time (2008)
#10Here's IGNITION! by John Clark (which is apparently out of print) in the downloadable digital
http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=John+Clark+Ignition&lg_topic...
Co-authored by Isaac Asimov!?