They may want to kill us, but that's no reason to poison their groundwater.
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I saw this interesting article in the morning news feed. The environmentalist impulse has apparently come home to root in a field of study which (I feel) is traditionally thought of to be at the opposite end of the spectrum: explosive ordinance manufacturing.
To be honest, I don't know WHY I thought those two camps are opposed. It's not as if the environmentalists are out picketing the major military operations. Sure, the military is devoted to blowing up ground and burning down trees, but on the whole, they just seemed like a big corporation using a lot of gas to move their trucks (tanks) around.
But now here come the scientists making our standard bomb explosives more environmentally friendly. Apparently, when the current crop of TNT and RDX explode, there are toxic byproducts. Even the unexploded compounds themselves are toxic. The new compounds are made of nitrogen products and are much less harmful... well, less harmful to the environment anyhow. The new explosives are exactly as harmful to people.
And who should have made this discovery in bomb-making? It's the Germans. Yes, I *know* there was some unpleasantness a few years back. Something about Germans and bombs, sure. But that was *sooo* last century. Now they only make green bombs and humorously-sized pretzels.
I saw this interesting article in the morning news feed. The environmentalist impulse has apparently come home to root in a field of study which (I feel) is traditionally thought of to be at the opposite end of the spectrum: explosive ordinance manufacturing.
To be honest, I don't know WHY I thought those two camps are opposed. It's not as if the environmentalists are out picketing the major military operations. Sure, the military is devoted to blowing up ground and burning down trees, but on the whole, they just seemed like a big corporation using a lot of gas to move their trucks (tanks) around.
But now here come the scientists making our standard bomb explosives more environmentally friendly. Apparently, when the current crop of TNT and RDX explode, there are toxic byproducts. Even the unexploded compounds themselves are toxic. The new compounds are made of nitrogen products and are much less harmful... well, less harmful to the environment anyhow. The new explosives are exactly as harmful to people.
And who should have made this discovery in bomb-making? It's the Germans. Yes, I *know* there was some unpleasantness a few years back. Something about Germans and bombs, sure. But that was *sooo* last century. Now they only make green bombs and humorously-sized pretzels.
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