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RE: My Spacebar is OK!
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: My Spacebar is OK!
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On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----Original Message----
> >From: Igor Pechtchanski
> >Sent: 13 June 2005 18:06
>
> > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> >
> >> Just in terms of gravitational potential energy, you're getting a lot
> >> more value-for-money from each kilogram of hippo if it's falling off the
> >> top of a tower block than if it's just been pushed off the edge of a
> >> coffee-table!
> >
> > You have a coffee table that can hold a hippo?! :-)
> > Igor
>
> No, I have a coffee table that _can't_ hold a hippo. That's why the
> hippo is in free-fall from a not-very-great-height!
Well, then, there'd be hardly any need to *push* the hippo off the edge,
would there?
Igor
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