Miles Maxted wrote to James Bradley, "Re: Levitation..." on 06-27-05 04:43

 MM> G'morning James,

Top of the day to you, Miles. As a chat-show host named David Lettermen
is apt to ask, "How's the go goin'?"

 -> concluded that his greatest sin was making money from it all.
 DW> Bill Gates gets a lot of the same kind of vitriol.
 MM> And not too much press for his charitable spends...

 JB> I haven't seen any of it, but then, I never spent much on MS product.

 MM> Seems that Bill and spouse are apt to drop a billion or two into
 MM> anti-AIDS work and the like - none of which I personally want to
 MM> benefit from...

That's the thing, isn't it? I smartened up when a loaf of mouldy toast
could fix about everything you could get into... Maybe I live in a
glass house.

 JB> Sounds like we are about to break a record for monthly rainfall. Our
 JB> wooden bridges are usually lost to fire.

 MM> Mmmm ... there's a bridge built by the Army on Crown land that
 MM> served a farmer by connecting his two-part farm.  A visiting bee-
 MM> keeper drove out to at 3 times the posted speed - and it
 MM> disintegrated.

That'll ruin the rest of anybody's day!

 MM> Army enquiry report that says construction with untreated timber
 MM> was faulty.

And being an Army Engineered product, on Crown dirt no less... The
 mind boggles!

 MM> A festering legal sore in still running the pauper farmer family
 MM> through the courts with appeal upon inquest over enquiry...

 MM> It would be quite nice to lose a few bridge with a nice, quiet
 MM> fire,  methinks !

 MM> :-)

It's a little more obvious a failure modal, to be SURE! By
disintegration, once you're in it, it's too late to turn back, and
hitting the throttle, only makes that much more of a *splash*.

If I had my dithers, I'd try to be there in a McClairen F1, so I could
be sure to leave a lasting imprint.


... The army has only two sizes, too large and too small.
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