Re: cooperation

"Brian Whatcott" <betwys1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hehe...I had the exact same thought.
>
> Do you remember the one featuring a magnet that would run up a slope
> if placed at the foot, and run away down the other side.
> The PM designer tried to run rails around from the far side back to
> the start point, reasoning it would run up the ramp again, and
> again.... sadly it won't.


Whenever I hear "invention" and "magnets" in the same sentence, I'm quick to
think "crackpot".

Don
Kansas City



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