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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
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Subject: Re: wiring house for speakers (a shortsighted idea?)
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 03:14:50 EST
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For a minute there I thought ames!jaw was just quoting the liner notes from
"Stop making sense". Except that he didn't quote the line "In the future,
women will have breasts all over", so I knew he was just making it up.

Right. This reminds me a lot of the article that appeared in @i[Science]
magazine in the middle 1970's (for those of you not familiar with it, 
@i[Science] is an archival-quality refereeed journal devoted primarily to
biology and medicine). Anyhow, it predicted that furnaces would be obsolete
because peoples' houses would be wired with microwave emitters that would
radiate low-energy high-frequency energy directly into their bodies. The
author of the article worked out all of the math and showed that nobody
would be injured, and showed further that if one person got too hot he could
wear a metallic jacket to cool off.

My telephone wires are obsolete too. I think I'd better put in glass fiber
right away.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA