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From: Steve Cramer <cramer_at_coe.uga.edu>
subject: [Paddlewise] Exploding stoves
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:26:43 -0500
JCMARTIN43_at_aol.com wrote:
> 
> dana.dickson_at_unisys.com writes:
> 
> <<  The bottom line is that the probability of fire or explosion from leaking
> fuel is greater than zero and is controllable by the airlines. >>
> 
> Not exactly, Dana.  There is a real, measurable probability of primary and/or
> secondary fire and explosion from a camping stove, whether or not it leaks.
> That probability is not controllable by the airlines....

1. There is a real, measurable probability of a stove exploding.
2. There is a potentially measurable probability of a stove exploding on
   an airplane in flight.
3. The airline can control probability 2--make it zero--by forbidding
   stoves on airplanes.

Is that what we all mean? :)

Steve

PS--Jack and I have been emailing each other about this and wondering
why no one else was chiming in. Seems we can't tell the differnece
between reply to sender and reply to group. At least I can't. Couldn't.
Whatever. Anyhow, feel free to bring your stove on my canoe, but not my
plane.

SC
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