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- From: seaverw@columbia.dsu.edu (W. A. Seaver)
- Subject: Re: THE WHITE WITCH OF BLACK DIAMOND
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- References: <92318.121533PBONG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1992Nov15.172308.8312@edsr.eds.com> <1992Nov17.164248.9749@ptdcs2.intel.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:04:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.164248.9749@ptdcs2.intel.com> lhales@ptdcs2.intel.com (Loyde Hales ~) writes:
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- >In article <92318.121533PBONG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> PBONG@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
- >>>and "THE GAS ROOM" with its skull and crossbones painted in red. I've been
- >>>inside the gas room with a candle and the candle went out, I couldn't smell
- >>>anything, yet the gas is there.
-
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- >In article <1992Nov15.172308.8312@edsr.eds.com> hkelly@tantalum.eds.com
- >(Kelly Shuldberg) responds:
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- > [Kelly theorizes that the "gas" was simply lack of oxygen]
-
- >Certainly lack of Oxygen can be a problem in mines, but the major reason for
- >carrying birds into the mines was to detect 'natural gas', the same compound
- >many of you use to heat your water/house. This gass is impossible to detect
- >by human senses and is common in some mines, espectially coal mines. For many
- >years it caused more deaths than the cave-in.
-
- In which case, perhaps wandering into a chamber containing an unknown gas
- with a lit candle probably wasn't such a good idea, huh?
-
- --Alan
-