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| User: "Mark Martin" |
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| Title: Re: LIGO detects gravity waves |
01 Apr 2005 08:20:19 PM |
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Supertech wrote:
"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1112369178.998212a53e232cf60e462347bfa969c6@teranews...
April fools!
Not very funny.
What if they really find it in the future?
Although I think it would be like finding a needle in the haystack.
For a few years I worked in aerospace fabricating titanium heat
shields for aircraft. Everyone's tool kit included a rectangular knife
with a nice wooden handle on it, the blade being about 6 inches long by
about 2 inches wide. Once I was looking through the tool crib to
replace my worn out knife, and stumbled upon one which, for an unknown
reason, a previous user had cut a very neat semicircle out of the
cutting edge. In fact, the curve was just about exactly the shape of my
forearm's cross section. That is to say, if I laid the curve flush over
my arm, it looked as if the knife was slicing right into it down to the
bone.
The temptation was too great to pass up such a perfect opportunity.
I fetched a container of a liquid called "DyeChem". It was used to
temporarily paint hard metal sufaces so that scribe lines could be
traced onto them visibly. But what was special in this case was that
the dye had the exact color & consistency of BLOOD.
I then held the blade firmly on my left arm and had an accomplice
paint the blood on so it looked exactly like I'd sliced halfway through
the meat. To make it even better, my arm had some elasticity and I
could saw it back & forth a good 1/2 inch or so, making it look as if I
was still slicing deeper.
My accomplice and I toured the shop, exhibiting my half amputated
left arm to any & all within sight, getting the desired response of
confused repulsion/amusement from everyone. In time I encountered one
of the higher-ups, who'd been witnessing the show from a distance. I
then showed him the getup, and his advice to me was, "You know, someday
you'll really have a knife halfway through your arm, and no one..."
-Mark Martin
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