Re: Whirlpower URL

Jim Shaffer, Jr. ( (no email) )
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:47:44 -0400

>A friend said, he would never forget the sight of the alien looking
>TR-3B based at Papoose. The pitch black, triangular shaped TR-3B was
>rarely mentioned--and then, only in hushed whispers--at the Groom Lake
>facility where he e government will go to any lengths to protect this
>technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000
>atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to
>50,000 rpm to create a
>super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption.

At 150 Kelvin the mercury should be quite solid at one atmosphere, let alone
250000. Even if 150 K is a typo, I can't imagine a plasma at 250000
atmospheres. Am I wrong?

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