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Subject: Re: Re: Strange Practices at Harvard
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 09:45:00 EDT
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peoplethinkthatthislineiseatenbutitisnot,isit?youcanseeitafterall,canyounot?

Well, actually, please do not forget that MIT is just down the road.
Of course, there will be intense rivalry with MIT, and it is only
understandable that Harvard will fear some form of evesdropping. MIT being very
clever, Harvard has not actually been able to identify any instance of this,
but can merely suspect. 
Harvard could set up actual electronic radio frequency jammers to preclude
remote sensing of Harvard test equipment, but since there has been no known
case of bugging, it would not be the correct academic style. Thus, a
distinguished Harvard professor, whose name momentarily escapes me, came up
with an alternative, legal, solution.
If one can set up an electromagnetic field of suitable shape, one can easily
divert radio frequency waves. The shape can be achieved with the circular
arrangement of the stones. When they are wetted with the sprinklers, the minor
washing off of the mineral surface will generate a dielectric effect, which in
turn will create the magnetic field required.


Bernard H. Schwab
Siemens RTL, Princeton, NJ