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I refer you to page 3 of this delightful thread, where I made a gaff by suggesting Maxwell invented electromagnetism, but deftly edited it before smartypants e-rock could get in a post about how electromagnetism was always around and newton didn't invent gravity and blahdiddyblahblahblah...

Yeah, but you had to force the by double-posting. Poor form! There is something to be said for pulling a thread out of the grave like that and snafflizing it though.

Au contraire, mon frere. Newton didn't "invent" granvity any more than the maker of the first sundial "invented" time. He just "found out about it", as they say. but who invented reading comprehension?

I gave up long ago. I can't compete with the professionals.

You got that right, the guy also owes me a sum total of at least 100000 gallons of coffee for every calculus assignment I've had to do over my academic career.

Jeez e&m wasn't invented, it was merely mathematically described. Next you're gonna tell us that Newton invented Gravity. I will no longer collaborate with you on flatulatory investigations. please note the edit Dr. Dictionary. And yes Newton did invent gravity. Bastard blows my 5.14 onsights every time.

I bet Max would be popular too. Without the discovery of electromagnetism there would be no vibrators.

probably not a lot of steep limestone bluffs to be had anyways.

ah the jumble of info swimming in my brain was well-worth the college loans.

cept you wouldn't be able to have the pleasure of lighting them. really it is a lose-lose proposition.

the summers on venus are awfully muggy I don't recommend it

nothing. I was simply responding to Syzyzy(etc)yszki's response "are you going to the moon?" which was referring to my reference to E-rock's joke about the dinty moore chili can rocket in the other topic. that post was the result of pure boredom combined with alcohol. Clearly they need to stop offering beer at my office.

don't you have some bass fishing to do cornfield-dweller?

planet chili-wack.

who cares? he's motivated me to take on a dinty moore rocketry project this weekend.

that's a new twist.

It has been done more than a few times in the fall already. There have also been some rescues off it in the fall. Enjoy.

you lucky bastards!

gotta love 2003 crap-rap!

Erik spends his free time playing with these geometric figures crickey you vanquished my warlock!

Once a friend of mine stumbled out on to the cascade lakes highway after an epic in the three sisters. He and his bud dragged themselves over to a still-snow-covered Sparks (maybe Devils?) Lake entrance where there was an bridge paved with asphalt. For some reason they had some hot dogs and started cooking them right there on the bridge. Unfortunately they set the asphalt on the bridge on fire. I'm not sure if they repaved by now but there was a noticable depression where they had their barbeque. This was decades ago so it is probably gone now.

gotta admit I had a little leatherman knock-off thing to get the can open...guess I don't qualify.

wha..? I'm not that much younger than you! I'm not old yet I hope.

bah that's what photoshop is for.