X-Message-Number: 4726
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 11:22:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Brain warming

To Ralph Merkle:

It's good news, Ralph, that my brain can be warmed so quickly merely by
allowing hydrogen to react with fluorine (under, er, controlled conditions
of course). I lack any chemical reference guides, but I vaguely remember
that the product of this reaction, in the presence of water, produces
hydrofluoric acid, which my old chem teacher used to use for cleaning
especially dirty laboratory glassware, since it would dissolve just about
anything. I assume you are planning to contain this somehow; in which case
I have to ask, what are you going to contain it *in*? And how are you
going to get it *out*? I imagine some sort of wake-up call to the little
pellets that have done their heating job: "All right, all of you, head
right on down to the jugular vein as quick as you can, there's a syringe
waiting there to take you to your next destination." But--how do they FIND
the jugular vein? And what happens if a couple dozen of the billions of
these little critters somehow miss the instruction and get left behind?

I always enjoy your ingenuity, Ralph, but it seems that in this case, in 
solving one problem, you have created a few others; and before anyone 
injects a hydrogen-fluorine cocktail into MY brain, I hope they take the 
trouble to make a copy of it first (the brain, I mean).

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