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AngusPodgorny
Jun 3, 2004

Please to be restful, it is only a puffin that has from the puffin place outbroken.
This is a fun book. It's a serious history about all the labs involved and all the chemical compounds, mixed with anecdotes about mad scientists:

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We were all gathered around waiting for the balloon to go up when Uncle Milty warned, "Hold it--the acid valve is leaking!"
"Go ahead--fire anyway!" Paul ordered.
I looked around and signaled to my own gang, and we started backing away, like so many cats with wet feet.

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AngusPodgorny
Jun 3, 2004

Please to be restful, it is only a puffin that has from the puffin place outbroken.
You can be heartened by the fact that sometimes the scientists just wanted to waste military money:

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One is led to suspect that some of the fancier amines were synthesized, not because there was any reason to believe that they would be an improvement on the ones they already had, but to demonstrate the virtuosity of the bench man, who wanted to prove that he could do it.

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