Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!greenber From: greenber@acf4.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: New Discovery...Re: Battleships! Message-ID: <9900009@acf4.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 10:18:00 EST Article-I.D.: acf4.9900009 Posted: Thu Dec 20 10:18:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:41:38 EST References: <9900007@acf4.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #R:acf4:9900007:acf4:9900009:000:1343 Nf-From: acf4!greenber Dec 20 10:18:00 1984 <> >> 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 <----