At 11:21 PM 6/3/98 EDT, Maercutio@aol.com wrote:

Ed Becerra writes:

 >Genom Chicago was fried by Largo. The Tower as it existed during Mason's 

time would be nonexistent in 2035, replaced by a brand-new facility.

 
 	Quincy has this annoying habit of building on the ruins of previous
 projects. Literally. If the foundation was still there, he'd simply

have it

 cleaned up and rebuilding would progress apace. Building inspectors?
 Dishonest ones would go home rich. The occasional honest one might go home
 with a bad case of dead-ness. ^_^ And if the chamber has been built by
 Mason, that means it would be VERY well hidden, which in turn means it's
 very likely DEEP underground. Particle beams are nice weapons, but they
 don't give great soil penetration. Anything more than 100 feet underground
 stands a very high chance of surviving intact. Trust me. This was what I
 _did_, when I was still active military. I can show you radiation
 pentration charts, but I expect they're already available on the net
 somewhere, and it would be a boring waste of bandwidth for the list. A
 quick example? 12 feet of just plain soil (144 inches) will reduce the
 power of simple gamma radiation by a factor of 1,000,000. Sounds
 impossible, doesn't it. But true.

You know, someday one of us is going to unearth what you were REALLY doing
when you were active military, and then the government wll be forced to kill
either you or half the list. ^_-

Those are just simple shielding calculations. You can do them with the
right reference books (available from any bookstore with a decent
scientific reference section) and knowledge of simple algebra.  Ed's not
the only one who deals with such things (a piece of PAPER can provide
near-complete shielding from some types of radiation)




Jeanne Hedge



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