Re: mystery powder

"Hactar" <ebenZEROONE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:087if5-upt.ln1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I just watched "Der Lauf der Dinge" (English title: "The Way Things
> Go").  It's a Rube Goldberg-ish sequence (rather, lots of sequences
> spliced together in a half hour) involving a lot of fire, fuzes, and
> electricity.  About 18 minutes in, there is a bit with piles of black
> powder that tinkles as it burns.  What could it be?  Something metallic?

For a second there, I channelled late 2001 when every mystery powder was 
presumed to be anthrax.

Anny