Ralph wrote: > > When Thomas Edison and his laboratory associates were working on the > light bulb they ran across a problem: how to measure the volume of the > light bulb area which would be filled with gases. His associates went > into elaborate caliberations of the cylinder portion and the globe > portion, etc. to figure out the estimated volume. Edison, busily > working away at some other aspect of the project, looked over and saw > his colleagues mathematical machinations struggle. He went over, > grabbed the light bulb, took it to a lab faucet, filled it with water > and then poured the water into a measuring beaker. "Gentlemen, here is > your volume!" > > While the story is not exactly applicable to the current debate, it does > say something about how a more direct approach can prove helpful. So, if we fill a paddle with water we will know how stable he is? :-) Cheers, John Winters Waveform Plastics Technologies Ltd. 15 Ena Ave. South River, Ontario P0A 1X0 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Nov 19 2000 - 08:43:03 PST
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