Nick wrote: >The grad student (Sam Mcfadden) wants to put some strain > gages on a boat and go paddling. I WoW, your students name made me go check names at NOAA Pacific Marine Lab because Michael James McPhaden http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/mmcv.html is known as the *Mother* of El Nino in the US. i found out that it seems Sam ain't related to Mike. > think we might learn something > interesting. Will he learn how strong is "strong enough". At best, > only what is strong enough for the conditions he paddled in. But that > might be interesting. He will also see where the stresses are in the > boat. And we might be able to draw conclusion about other conditions > by extension. > sounds like a fun project, let us know how it develops. bye bye bliven *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 12 2000 - 09:19:13 PDT
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