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<a href="../200702/5226.html">next message in arch --Apple-Mail-218-402368403 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Virginia, On 16-Feb-07, at 8:09 PM, Virginia and Terry wrote: > In case anyone is wondering if 'others' are interested in the =20 > 'elevation' posts. I have read every single one from beginning to =20 > end and enjoyed them immensely. I did not understand a single thing =20= > except that I would like to see someone running up a hill with a 10 =20= > m high manometer. Will you please post when and where this is going =20= > to be attempted. Brilliant suggestion! I just checked and there is no Guinness Book =20 record for this event so there exists a great possibility for Nova =20 Scotian's to make headlines with such a concept. Perhaps it should be =20= considered as an annual competative event ... ? > Steve Shaw wrote: > >> One of us is missing something, or as the schoolboy riddle goes, =20 >> " Two scotsmen are shouting across at each other from two tall =20 >> buildings, but can't ever agree on anything. Why not?"** Very good: another possibility: Question: "If it would take a cannon-ball 3 1/3 seconds to travel =20 four miles, and 3 3/8 seconds to travel the next four, and 3 5/8 to travel the next four, and if =20 its rate of progress continued to diminish in the same ratio, how long would it take to =20 go fifteen hundred million miles?" =96 Arithmeticus Answer: "I don't know." =96 Mark Twain (from "Answers to = Correspondents") Cheers! Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.=20= _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.=20= _. --Apple-Mail-218-402368403 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi = Virginia,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 16-Feb-07, at 8:09 PM, Virginia and Terry = wrote:</DIV><BR class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In case anyone is wondering if = 'others' are interested in the 'elevation' posts. I have read every = single one from beginning to end and enjoyed them immensely. I did not = understand a single thing except that I would like to see someone = running up a hill with a 10 m high manometer. Will you please post when = and where this is going to be attempted.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brilliant suggestion! I = just checked and there is no=A0Guinness Book record for this event so = there exists a great possibility for Nova Scotian's to make headlines = with such a concept. Perhaps it should be considered as an annual = competative event ... ?</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Steve = Shaw wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = "></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BLOCKQUOTE = type=3D"cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">=A0One of us = is missing something, or as the schoolboy riddle goes, " Two scotsmen = are shouting across at each other from two tall buildings, but can't = ever agree on anything.<SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 = </SPAN>Why not?"**</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Very good: another = possibility:</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Question: "If it would take = a cannon-ball 3 1/3 seconds to travel four miles, and 3 3/8 = seconds</DIV><DIV>=A0to travel the next four, and 3 5/8 to travel the = next four, and if its rate of progress</DIV><DIV>=A0continued to = diminish in the same ratio, how long would it take to go = fifteen</DIV><DIV>=A0hundred million miles?" =96 = Arithmeticus</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Answer: "I don't know." =96 = Mark Twain (from "Answers to Correspondents")</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Palatino">Cheers!</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New = Roman; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: = 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Palatino">Chris<BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></FONT></SPAN> <BR></DIV><DIV> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._