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- From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
- Subject: Light reflecting off LPs
- Message-ID: <22NOV199207364366@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- References: <1eb2neINNecj@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU> <1992Nov17.160733.1518@Princeton.EDU> <1992Nov17.134830.17534@husc3.harvard.edu> <1992Nov21.021048.17702@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:36:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.021048.17702@nuscc.nus.sg>, smoliar@iss.nus.sg (Stephen Smoliar) writes...
- >In article <1992Nov17.134830.17534@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) writes:
- >>There was/is a fellow who could recognize a classical LP (sans
- >I once heard James Randi talk about this guy. He really could only distinguish
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- The related story I saw was in the NY TImes in the late 70s/early 80s
- when there was a lot more peculiar stuff in that paper. I recall that
- he was a physician and he could identify a disk from across the room.
- Was this the same guy? I recall also that he had a friend or two
- who could also do the same thing. At least one of them was also a
- physician, and they got together for informal contests. There was a
- photo of them. This story did =not= run on either March 31 or April 1,
- as I recall.
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