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- From: ksampath@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Krishna S Sampath)
- Subject: Re: How do they know?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:41:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.210628.14389@atlastele.com> briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey) writes:
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- ....stuff....
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- We all know that Galileo's experiments with gravity were conducted
- before the invention of cameras. Cameras, it seems, tend to fall
- much faster than the human body and so always end up beneath us
- when we fall.
-
- ....stuff....
-
-
- this is just a corollary to murphy's "law of selective gravity" which goes
- something like:
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- an object that is dropped will go down so as to cause the most damage to the
- object or the thing it falls on.
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- (this is *exactly* the reason why bread always falls buttered face down.)
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- oops, did not realize this was not rec.humor.
- ;-) sleepily,
- krishna
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