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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
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----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
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