On Jan 26, 9:21=A0am, m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Mike Van Pelt) wrote:
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> John Reiher =A0<kedamono.P...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >In article
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> >> MAGNETIC MONSTER.
> >MONOLITH MONSTERS
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> OK, I figured one of these would be the movie I recall,
> but neither one is, though some themes sound similar.
>
> In this one, rocks containing "Element Number (something
> above 103)" start growing and getting hot when they are
> not immersed in water.
>
> One demo the scientists did was to place the rock on a
> table with a bucket of water underneath the table, then
> put some dessicant (sulfuric acid?) on the rock. =A0It
> seemed like it went through several phase changes,
> each time abruptly getting larger, and hotter. =A0At the
> last phase change, it burns through the table, lands
> in the bucket of water, and shrinks back down to its
> original size.
>
> After the last phase change, if water isn't available,
> the rock explodes. =A0They did this demo with a globe
> suspended from a tree branch out in the desert, with
> a teeny tiny bit of the mineral inside.
>
> The climax, it's going to blow up the Earth if they
> don't get water on it really quickly, so they blow
> up Hoover Dam. =A0(Which had caused the problem in the
> first place by blocking the Colorado River and letting
> the mineral dry out.)
>
> I recall the movie pretty fondly, but I have no idea
> whether I would be able to tolerate it today.
>
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