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  2. From: jcarroll@ferris.cray.com (Jeff Carroll)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  4. Subject: Re: highway riding
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov5.121725.8904@walter.cray.com>
  6. Date: 5 Nov 92 18:17:24 GMT
  7. References: <rv81hbg@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1da4qpINN3i6@agate.berkeley.edu>
  8. Sender: jcarroll@ferris (Jeff Carroll)
  9. Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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  11. Originator: jcarroll@ferris
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  15. In article <1da4qpINN3i6@agate.berkeley.edu>, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
  16.   In article <rv81hbg@zola.esd.sgi.com> cj@sgi.com (C J Silverio) writes,
  17.   allowing as how she didn't *know* that motorcycling could be *dangerous*:
  18.  
  19.     (short shameful sermon elided)
  20. > 
  21. > mini land torpedoes.
  22. > 
  23. > automatic tire-homing guidance. fire and forget.
  24. > 
  25.  
  26. *tire-homing*? seems as though this would impart undesirable angular momentum
  27. of unpredictable sense in the xy-plane, possibly causing an ugly road hazard
  28. unless you have installed VTOL conflagration-jumping rockets on your vehicle.
  29.  
  30. Better the heat-seeking missile lobbed forward at about 60 degrees from
  31. horizontal, targeting the engine block.
  32.  
  33. Or the large-caliber fender-mounted automatic cannon.
  34.  
  35. jkc (two can play at this game, and ma & pa rambo don't ride astride
  36.     the engine of their Ford.)
  37.