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Mining Disintegrator
A special-purpose boring machine. (Read the full article)
| "Niven wrote about the mining beam disintegrator in his novel "World of Ptavvs" back in 1965 - 1966 - a device that supressed the charge on the electron and thus caused matter to blow itself apart in a cloud of monatomic dust." (Tim Morrison 4/8/2005 12:06:47 PM ) |
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