> > Simply fill one of the lower legs of the platfrom with
> >mercury, and a little high explosives. Have a panic button in the ops
> >center. The SAS lands, and 1000 gallons of pure mercury are blasted
> >out into the channel. That wouldn't be nice.
>
>Plays heck with your mercury delay line memory :-)
>
>
>Also, while pure mercury is bad stuff, it's not as dangerous as
>mercury compounds, such as organics or the oxide,
>or lots of other stuff. Similarly, you could store toxic waste,
>making your self-defense system a profit-making business...
>
>But if you explicitly dump the waste yourself, not only
>are you harming a bunch of non-participants in your fight,
>you've got a liability problem that exceeds any profits you may have made.
>Ain't worth it.
If the SAS are coming through the front door, you just went bankrupt.
If England, France, Belgium etc. *new* that you would dump a
massively toxic witches brew into their fishing waters, they might
make sure that you weren't invaded by guys with guns.
Then again, they just may shoot your off-site personel in
their sleep, and blockade your platform until you starve.
