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In article <1d1au3INN60e@bigboote.WPI.EDU> noahvawt@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (noahvawt) writes:
>Well I hear a lot of talk about methods of destroying the Earth, but
>so far, most of your ideas, albeit creative, are too expensive, and
>certainly not portable.
>
>I, Noah Vawter, have figured out a way of doing extremely with
>materials you can find at any K-mart, for under 5 bucks!  great deal, huh?
>
>As a matter of fact, I've already started.
>
>Here's what ya do:
>	just go to do the store, and buy yourself a few nine-volt batteries.
>Then, attach them in series, and attach wires to the two poles at either end.
>Then, you go to the ocean somewhere, and just throw this contraption in.
>It will undergo electralysis (sp), of course, and Hydrogen will collect on
>one pole, and oxygen on the other.  If everyone in the East Coast does this,
>then the atmosphere will be saturated with hydrogen, and oxygen.  Two 
>of the most explosive things I can think of (for being made of only one
>element each!)
>	Then, we just wait for some poor schmuck to flick his lighter on,
>and Boom!  the whole atmosphere will explode backwards, and suck us
>into a black hole!
>
>start building your own nine-volt-batterie device today! 
>any ideas for a name for them?
>
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Nice idea, but it won't quite work.  The electrodes would erode on the 
batteries first.  And if you do succeed, the hydrogen and oxygen would simply
react to form water which would rapidly crystalize and fall back to the earth 
in a huge planetary blizzard.  Well, if the batteries were to work, then I 
guess it would be interesting.

-- The Madman