[ExI] Transhumanist webcomics of the day

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf
Of Anders Sandberg
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And SMBC has some good rocket science:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4040

Anders Sandberg

Thanks Anders, another example of excellent craftsmanship in the comics.
The MSDS baseball diamond shows a blue 3, which means the stuff can hurt you
badly, a red 4 which means highly flammable gas and a yellow nada which
means it is chemically stable non-corrosive, with no special handling
requirements which would be in the white octant below.  

An example of that code might be propane, reasoning: gas at STP, flammable,
can cause frostbite if you spill it on yourself but non-corrosive in itself,
chemically stable and neutral, with no special handling cautions besides the
already-noted flammability and don't get it on your bare skin.

Propane would fit all those.  Propane can be used to get delta V.  

Lots of good rocket-geek humor there.  A sight gag of carrying that stuff in
a bucket for instance: it would be boiling away flammable gas.

Rocket geek companies really do have people like this.

Whoever drew that strip went to some trouble to get a real MSDS to fit the
setting.

spike