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From: dclaar@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Doug Claar)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Can lasers be deflected electroMAGNETically?
Message-ID: <6220007@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Dec 89 19:41:18 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>Why did you want to "pull a vaccuum" on your living room or den?

Obviously, I didn' want the picture tube to implode, so I
figured--what the heck--just hook up the vacuum pump and suck
the air out of the whole thing! I discovered that this technique
doesn't work, though, after the cat exploded.

Obviously :-),

personal p.s. to Michael Bergman: 
   My mailer bounced with bergman@m2c.org.
   And bergman@odin.m2c.org.
   And bergman@128.188.1.3.
   So, here's my reply.