Re: Definition of terms

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article
<p46ga259k6tl1ja0r551pbjgt3765lmtdq@xxxxxxx>, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) hath wroth:

So you won't be needing this NH4OH??

Well, I could use some ammonia cleaner for the kitchen floor.

Have you noticed how all of the "good" products are being taken off the
market by those namby-pamby safety authorities? I used the last of my
"Sunny-Brite Water Stain Remover" that I used to buy at OSH, and you
just can't buy it any more. Maybe it has something to do with the fact
that it was 7% hydrofluoric acid, and some luser sued the company out of
existence after she ignored the warning labels, mis-used it, and it ate a
hole in her hand. And I can't find the "5 Minute Wax & Acrylic Remover"
either. The label is damaged, so I can't see all the ingredients, but I
can make out something about 'omonium hydroxide, Sodium-' something or
other. It does say to use in a well ventilated space, and avoid inhaling
the fumes...

The stuff is a contact explosive and will blow up if you sneeze at it.
sneeze _near_ it. The book mentions it letting go when a fly landed on it.

Naw. The polluted junk I made required a hammer to set off. The
energy content of a landing fly is about 10 ergs.

You're going to make me install 'units-1.80.tar.gz'. Lessee, ergs is 1e-7
joules, is...

Back in college daze, one of my lunatic friends tried dropping dead flies
onto ammonium tri-idodide and found that it just wasn't enough energy to
initiate decomposition. As I recall, a BB shot from about 6" was the
minimum required to set it off.

We weren't allowed to play without supervision, and the staff had no
sense of humor. We caught hell just playing with the simple sulphur
compounds, never mind sodium or somethin'. Jeez, how's a person suppose
to learn???

Yech. I was all ready to try some of the recipies when I ran into a
real chemist. He pointed out the numberous errors and dangerous
practices in the book.

Well, a lot of the stuff in that book was either dangerous, or down right
insane, but some of the concepts made wheels turn

Since you're still among the living, I presume you didn't try anything
from the book.

In my young and foolish days I was doing a lot of things, but nothing
exploded nearby, and in any case I usually had witnesses that swore I
was in a different state at the time.

A bigger antenna is not going to fix the EME latency problem.

You just talk real slow

There was an upgrade in 1997 that really improved the feed. I think
(not sure) that the dish has always been accurate to within about 1/10
wavelength to about 3GHz. The various feeds go all the way to 10GHz.

I was under the impression that the dish was made of chain-link fence
material, and the cut-off was due to the dish becoming transparent at
higher frequencies. Certainly they get enough rainfall that the reflector
_has_ to have drain holes. Still, I see them talking about 10 GHz, and they
also quote a "Surface accuracy of 2.2 mm rms" which is extraordinary for
an object that big _AND_ being outside where the sun is going to play
merry h3ll with differential heating effects, never mind the wind. Well,
it is running out of poop - just at 17 dB higher than I thought. And I
suppose they won't accept my Visa card either.

Old guy
.

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