Ontopic Drops was OT: The Drop Squad

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sun Apr 30 16:02:28 2000

>I believe in using gravity as a tool.

There's an interesting article in the Annals of Irreproducible Research
where (using a suspect extrapolation!) they calculated how many times you'd
have to drop a frozen turkey from an 10-story building to get it fully cooked.

IIRC the title was "Cooking with Potential Energy". The text (though not
the graphs) seems to be online at

  http://www.bmsc.udel.edu/niiler/HESC276/PotentialEnergy.txt

Tim.
Received on Sun Apr 30 2000 - 16:02:28 BST

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