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From: rdp@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Re: Bottled birds?
Message-ID: <1240@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 09:46:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1240
Posted: Tue Sep  3 09:46:45 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Sep-85 01:03:46 EDT
References: <457@petfe.UUCP> <629@petsd.UUCP> <313@cxsea.UUCP>
Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <313@cxsea.UUCP> douglas@cxsea.UUCP (Douglas Wells) writes:
>> []
>> In article <457@petfe.UUCP> bobp@petfe.UUCP (Bob Philhower) writes:
>> >Given:  A bottle, (of arbitrary size), containing one (1) bird 
>	...
>> >and eventually out of, the bottle?
>> 
>[Christopher J. Henrich - replies]
>> 	While the bird is flying around in the bottle, it has
>	...
>> pattern, then you can expect it to apply to the aggregate of
>> them.
>
>Consider the following reductio ad absurdam, and I think the answer
>becomes obvious.
>
>Allow the opening to the bottle to become infinitely large.
>

I tried doing that, and the thing got so heavy it broke by bathroom scale.