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As the smoke cleared, Rick Monteverde <[email protected]> mounted the barricade and roared out: > This is interesting, and it sounds like oriented water. Gee. Maybe it's the long-(not)-sought-after "Ice-9"... You mean water that carries a memory -- and hates you..? ;P > The resilience may be in the vertical range, but there may be variablilty of > friction in the horizontal domain, one that might be influenced with a broom > (or electric charge?). Or a large, polished, rotating granite rock. It seems that there is a tendency for even surfaces/boundaries -- *especially* surfaces/boundaries -- to be chaotic/non-linear/complex: in this case, involving 'one (heretofore unsuspected) degree of freedom', apparently. Of course, such 'ideal' states IMO are likely swamped by the larger structures/forces at work around/near/ beside/in/on/under them too. So like someone here (more or less) said earlier: 'real life' is somewhat different... YMMV. - -- grok. - -- Build the North America-wide General Strike. TODO el poder a los consejos y las comunas. TOUT le pouvoir aux conseils et communes. ALL power to the councils and communes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoRtk8ACgkQXo3EtEYbt3EQbgCgrhgxHs7CbfjFcyZCJnIIMzW4 mhcAoO8+OwQ+jC60PTBFznZORo9F+0CC =uIjQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

