OT -- Way, WAY Off Topic!

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God hates mobile homes, that much is obvious.

Our space research stuff is amazing, isn't it? It's all the more impressive
if you ponder the incredible distances involved and how narrow the angles
are to put something on the right course--the tiniest error and, whoosh,
your mars shot is headed for deep space.

Hey. The necessity for light-weight, less-power-hungry, and more dependable
electronics for space vehicles was the impetus for development of integrated
circuits and the microminiaturization that has made all our computers and
consumer electronic wonders possible.

So. Could they do the same for the piano? A new space-age plate material
(pre-stressed Microfibrolated Aluminum Dioxide impregnated polycarbonate
resin might work) that only weighs 7 ounces, high tension boron-fiber
strings, action parts made of hyper-spherical porated polyacrylics, wool
from really skinny sheep, that sort of thing ... get the whole piano weight
down to, say, 2 lbs. Let's get working on it!

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
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  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 8:59 AM
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  Subject: Re: OT -- Way, WAY Off Topic!


  At 09:46 AM 4/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:

    A belated farwell...

    ...to Pioneer 10, the little spacecraft that could. Originally sent out
to the Asteroid belt and then on to Jupiter. It was the first spacecraft to
travel through the Asteroid belt and the first to make direct obversations
and close-up photographs of Jupiter.

  That's the one that got the cool photos of the giant perpetual tornado.
Although there was no conclusive proof of life, at least we know they have
mobile home parks!

  Guy

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