"Richard B. Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote in news:[email protected]:
> unruh wrote: ... >> Once you have proven it works, you can then spend the 3 years and >> countless memos trying to get official space on the hull to mount the >> receiver. > Errr. . . . I don't thing you want to mount it on the hull. The hull > is the part that keeps the water out, provides a place to put engines > and other necessary machinery, etc. I think you want to put the > antenna somewhere on the superstructure and the rest of the > electronics somewhere on the bridge. While I may have misread Unruh, I believe that his use of "hull" above is a case of metonymy - or, rather more specifically, its subclass synecdoche - and refers to the ship generally. Regards, _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
