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From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Re: This is serious!
Message-ID: <235@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 15:11:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 15:11:55 1985
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	> From: peter@kitty.UUCP (Peter DaSilva)
	> Newsgroups: net.arch,net.micro,net.bizarre
	> Subject: Re: Re: This is serious!
	> Message-ID: <287@kitty.UUCP>
	> 
	> Reminds me of some of my weirder brainstorms, like a
	> substance made of a crystal of charged black holes (charge
	> opposed gravity). . . .  But boy talk about a rigid
	> structure! . . .

Bah! If the charge exactly balances gravity, its effect ought to
decrease according to the inverse-square rule, exactly the same as the
gravity, so it would balance the effect of gravity at any distance. The
charge would cancel out the gravity, so your ``crystal'' would be about
as rigid as a drunk salted slug.
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