From @MCC.COM:werner%sw.MCC.COM@MCC.COM Mon Jun 12 01:57:32 1989 Flags: 000000000201 From: zickus@udel.EDU (Tim Zickus) Subject: Fusion Girl Date: 7 Jun 89 10:02:19 GMT Organization: E. I. Dupont, Newark Delaware
I thought this was worth passing on, sorry if it's been posted already…
From: Bill Higgins– Beam Jockey HIGGINS%FNAL.BITNET@UICVM.UIC.EDU Subject: Fusion Girl
For forty years physicists have been trying to get controlled nuclear fusion. They've been taking poor little nuclei of heavy hydrogen– we call 'em "deuterons"– and crashing them together with brute force. Just a little while ago the news came out of Utah that you could do fusion in a pickle jar, without a lot of expensive equipment. If this turns out to be true, it could be as important to energy production as good old Enrico Fermi's first reactor in the University of Chicago squash courts, way back when.
Fusion Girl
by Bill Higgins
Copyright 1989 by William S. Higgins
I was working in the Fusion Lab late one night Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron But I couldn't get my magnetic bottle to light Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron Yeah, it was late at night Yeah, it wouldn't light Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron
Then I met a chemist who was kinda pretty Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron She told me that she came from Salt Lake City Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron Yeah, she was kinda pretty Yeah, she came from Salt Lake City Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron
She said, "You're wasting your time, and you're bound to lose" Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron "Let me introduce you to a new way to fuse" Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron Yeah, you're bound to lose Yeah, a new way to fuse Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron
What Fermi did under a stadium Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron She did with heavy water and palladium Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron Yeah, he had a stadium Yeah, she had palladium Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron
We made it together and it was so sweet Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron Just a few neutrons and a whole lotta heat Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron Yeah, it was so sweet Yeah, a lotta heat Yeah, she was a Fusion Girl Da deuteron, ron, ron, da deuteron ron
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