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From: mayville@tybalt.caltech.edu (Kevin J. Mayville)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: The lawsuit of the year!
Keywords: about time, train engineer's revenge
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Date: 28 Jan 88 11:39:37 GMT
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I have removed all the newsgroups except alt.flame, since this is the only
one that the "discussion" is appropriate for anymore.

>  Make a special effort and try to grasp the point, OK? The
>peculiar idiocy to which I referred had nothing to do with who
>was or was not a martyr. It had to do with repeated bonehead
>contentions such as the notion that Willson was unaware that
>trains are bigger than he is, and might be difficult to stop by
>muscle alone.

Personally, I have not heard a single person claim that Brian was
out on the tracks trying to leg-press a moving train.  I have,
however, heard a lot of people saying that stopping a train, even
one moving a relatively low velocities, by applying its brakes,
requires a rather large distance.  People lying down on tracks
are not incredibly easy to spot from a distance, and if the personnel
on the train are not able to react quickly enough, nothing short of
an act of God will stop the train in time.....

>>>Obviously this Sam Southard is a spamhead, but it is usually
>>>assumed something which passes for a brain is a requirement for a
>>>school like Cal Tech.
>
>>I don't think his school has anything to do with what he posted.
>
>  You're wrong, I suspect. One kind of spamhead is the kind who
>thinks he is smart because he can push buttons on a calculator
>and took a little calculus in high school, where he almost
>understood it. Hence, I suspect, the "ignorance of the laws of
>physics" nonsense.

Sam probably doesn't use a calculator.......after all, he has
Genghis......few things are worse than a condescending attitude
from a lower life form.......Sam has ready access to the physics
department of the Gods......

Sorry, just some random, disconnected thoughts....




Kevin
mayville@tybalt.caltech.edu


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