From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'hippohipposplatsplatboing!'" <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: My Spacebar is OK!
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANO8fUcaXCpbEb50000001f@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0506131333470.19743@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 13 June 2005 18:34
> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Igor Pechtchanski
>>> Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
>>>> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off
>>>> the top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of
>>>> a coffee-table!
>>>
>>> You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
>>> Igor
>>
>> No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo. That's why the
>> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
>
> Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
> would there?
> Igor
It wasn't pushed, it jumped!
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-14 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 11:29 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-13 15:30 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 15:34 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 16:21 ` Christopher Faylor
2005-06-13 17:06 ` Lionel B
2005-06-13 17:34 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:10 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-13 17:33 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 17:50 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 9:09 ` Lionel B
2005-06-14 15:58 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2005-06-14 12:15 ` Dave Korn [this message]
2005-06-14 15:59 ` One Angry User
2005-06-15 0:32 ` zzapper
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-14 13:51 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
2005-06-14 15:57 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Carlo Florendo
2005-06-15 9:26 ` Dave Korn
2005-06-13 13:52 Williams, Gerald S (Jerry)
[not found] <000901c56da7$78c10990$bf2fb5d5@keloasc60pobkb>
[not found] ` <20050610135326.GD7942@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
2005-06-10 15:08 ` Gerrit P. Haase
2005-06-10 16:59 ` Christopher Faylor
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