From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ryon@dslnorthwest.net   
   Subject: Re: The Unasked &Unanswered Questions of TOS   
      
   On Jul 30, 7:58apm, Quadibloc  wrote:   
   > On Jul 25, 12:02apm, Brad Filippone  wrote:   
   >   
   > > In 1930 a death row inmate took his own life in a very   
   > > ingenious way by creating a bomb out of a pipe (the hollow leg of his   
   > > cot), and several packs of playing cards. aHe knew that the red ink in   
   > > cards at the time used nitrocellulouse (gun cotton) in its   
   > > manufacture, so he tore off the red sections, put them in the pipe and   
   > > used the heater in his cell to ignite it.   
   >   
   > I do remember reading about the idea of making an explosive from the   
   > red ink in old playing cards - but where I heard of it, it was claimed   
   > to be an idea used in fiction but never in reality.   
   >   
   > John Savard   
   Back in dem days people thought nitrocellulose plastic to be the   
   greatest, hottest, new thing. Unfortunately, they were right   
   as cellulose billiard balls would even even explode.   
   Ron   
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