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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Mon Aug 12 01:29:22 1991
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 91 01:28:50 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
From: deano@areyes.com (Dean Carpenter)
Subject: Candle flames (oweee !)
Date: 11 Aug 91 04:59:11 GMT
Sheesh. Cats can really be kinda dumb. I mean *really* dumb.
Loki and Hela are two sable Burmese, 7 months old. Twin terrors. The
other night they both discovered candle flames. I have a bunch of these
huge thick candles that have finally burned down to about 10cm, and they
are now fair game....
One of these was sitting on the coffee table, and both terrors were
completely absorbed in watching the flame, as they usually do for a few
minutes. This night was different though, now the flame was low enough
that they could get a good look at it....
"What *IS* it ?"
"I dunno, you know what it is ?"
"Nope. I wanna eatitbiteitattackit !!"
"So do I ! But I'm 'cared...."
"Me too, but I wanna play. Let's see if it's mean"
Now comes a tentative smack with the paw. Nothing happens, but a little
hot wax sticks to the paw.....
"Omigodomigod whatsthatwhatsthatwhatsthat getitoffgetitoff !!!"
Note that for a good 15 minutes I'm yelling and throwing things at the
terrors, hitting them with the squirt bottle, all to little avail. It's
just way too intriguing. Finally I gave up. There was only one way
they were ever going to learn....
"What's it smell like ??"
"I dunno, you sniff it"
"No, you sniff it"
"Uhhhh, ok. No, we'll sniff it together"
Loki noticed the heat on his nose in time. He leaped away sniffing and
snorting, and then GLARING at me, highly indignant....
"Why the <BLEEP> didn't you TELL us it was mean ?"
Hela had decided to sneak up on the flame from the side. As a result,
her left whiskers curled to about 2/3 their original length with an
absolutely horrid odour. She too leapt away in a scrambling hurry....
"It jumped me ! Did you SEE that ? It jumped me ! Ooooh yuck"
Burned whiskers *really* smell bad, worse than hair.... Note, neither
one was injured in any way, neither got any closer than about 4cm before
leaping away, and I was *right* over them ready to snatch them away if
they proved to have abnormally slow nervous systems. You know,
"Dum de dum de dum I'm a heat/pain msg on my way to the brain, de dum"
Now they just sit and steal glances at the candles. Occasionally, when
a breeze makes the flame stir, the ears prick forward and that intent
look comes over their faces as they watch to see if the flame is going
to jump out at them or what.
Sheesh.
--
Dean Carpenter uunet!areyes!deano (203) 531-5007
Areyes, Inc. deano@areyes.com
"No matter where you go, there you are" sayeth Buckaroo across the Eighth Dimension
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ccount (Craig A Counterman):
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geoff (Geoff Collyer):
9, from Bell Labs
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
Now what?
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Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with
and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone
to hold your hand -- these things are "marriage," and sex is but the
icing on the cake. (Lazarus Long)
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Wanna find me?
Work: E10-218 x3-5756 or Home: NW61-234 x5-9523
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mikka (Mikka Shar):
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our
authority is Isaiah 30:26, "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as
the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as
the light of seven days." Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much
radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much
as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we
receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the
Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will
heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to
the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much
heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for
radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the
earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell
cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 21:8 says "But the
fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which
burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone means
that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We
have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.
-- From "Applied Optics" vol. 11, A14, 1972
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mjdaly (Mark J Daly):
Strat '78 Standings
NY Yankees 27 15 - .642
Boston 18 9 1.5 .667
Texas 24 18 3 .600
Pittsburgh 16 14 5 .533
Los Angeles 0 0 6 ---
Houston 13 17 8 .433
Montreal 8 19 11.5 .296
Baltimore 5 19 13 .206
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pestana (Juan M Pestana Nascimento):
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
Selected-By: bjb@hubcap.clemson.edu (BJ Backitis (KM4RB))
The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply.
Your question was:
> Oh wisest of the wise oracle, please explain to me,
>
> Why is it that every time a female describes her relationship
> with me, the word 'plutonic' is always used?
And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
} They mean that, like Pu-225, your relationship had a half-life
} of 26 minutes.
}
} You owe the Oracle a cyclotomic accelerator.
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