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From: greenber@acf4.UUCP
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Subject: Re: New Discovery...Re: Battleships!
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 10:18:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 10:18:00 1984
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>>   When I float my terminal
>> in my bathtub, there is very little water needed to keep it from sinking.
>> Even more interesting is that when I let the water out of the bathtub
>> carefully enough my terminal does NOT go down the drain!!!
>> (surprised me, too!)

> Please note that terminal MUST be disconnected from the electricity before
> floating it!

According to reports recently printed in the Armament News, a Murdoch
publication, you should not disconnect the terminal at all.  Since this
reduces the intensity of the phosphers to zero (except for ELFP, Extremely
Long Fade Phosphers) this reduces your battleship to the state of
nothingness.  Applying the formula stated in the base article and
remebering that "God does not play dice with battleships" indicates
that you'd have a quantum battleship.  Now, since we know the energy of
the battleship (you turned off the terminal, right?) you can't really know
its position.  It is reasonable to assume that if a russian scientist
turns on his terminal, he'll get the battleship!!!!

It is for this reason, and this reason only, that the State Department
does not allow Vaxen into the Soviet Union.  It is their theory that the
more tubes that are allowed in the USSR, the more battleships will be
lost.


Ross M. Greenberg  @ NYU   ---->  allegra!cmcl2!acf4!greenber  <----