OFF: a little bit of lunacy?

[Jill Strobridge]

Something to do while making the breakfast  (from the BBC website) 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6460089.stm

  "I discovered that if you put lunar soil in your microwave oven, next to 
your tea, it will melt at 1,200C before your tea boils - which is a magical 
thing,"    Professor Larry Taylor, director of the Planetary Geosciences 
Institute at Tennessee.


However it's part of a more problematic story that suggests lunar dust might 
cause the equivalent of silicosis in humans - which rather puts in jeopardy 
any long-term habitation there  8-(

jill
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Jill Strobridge <jill.strobridge at blueyonder.co.uk>
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