From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!uwvax!doug
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Zero G scale
Article-I.D.: uwvax.402
Posted: Sat May 29 15:08:57 1982
Received: Sun May 30 02:30:00 1982
References: uwvax.401

here are some more I heard of:

(i)  go to the top of the building and lower the barometer with
     a string 'til it hits the sidewalk.  then pull the string 
     back up and measure it's length.

(ii) lower the barometer by a string again, and this time set it
     to swinging.  from the period of the simple harmonic motion
     you can find the length of the string.

(iii) stand the barometer next to the building and measure it's
      height and length of its shadow.  then measure the building's
      shadow and deduce its height from ratios.

there's one more beside the two Marv Solomon mentioned that I
recall was pretty funny, but I can't remember anything else about it.

doug@uwisc