I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I've a question vaguely related to
my previous message.
As I understood it, recently in the PBEM campaign being reported on this
list, a fuel ship leaked a big cloud of hydrogen into space, and then one
of the ships ignited or exploded it as a diversion. Why did it ignite or
explode? It seems like it wouldn't, unless there was also some other chemical
about for it to combine with. Was it a nuclear explosion? Seems like the
conditions for this would be pretty unlikely in a small cloud of hydrogen
in deep space...
Probably just being stupid, or misunderstood the description.
Bart Massey
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