I heard that one as a janitor who told Boeing engineers how to keep airplane wings from ripping off the fuselage. Ode
At 10:06 AM 8/6/2004 -0500, you wrote: >That reminds me of a short story by Theodore Sturgeon where the >protagonist made the strongest material ever known, made out of - >nothing. > > He figured this out logically by experimenting with paper that came in >perforated sheets, like toilet paper or paper towels. He would put the >paper on a flat surface and then put both hands flat down on it with one >hand on each side of a perforation. Then he would separate his hands >slowly and watch how the paper tore. It always tore somewhere other >than at the perforations. He reasoned that, since the perforations >which were nothing but holes were stronger than the rest of the paper, >"nothing" was stronger than "something". > >Once he had discovered this secret, it didn't take him long to develop >the strongest "material" on earth - made out of nothing... > >(Of course, manufacturers are more adept at hiding this secret since >material precessing has improved so much over the last 30 years. It is >not likely to be rediscovered in our lifetime...) > > > > -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
