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Mike Hewson
Mike Hewson
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@Chris - regarding your

@Chris - regarding your comment elsewhere upon gravity and it's relationship to your big toe. May I congratulate you for how perceptive you have been to have brought the topic to our keen attention :

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Refutation of Bishop Berkeley
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it -- "I refute it thus."
Boswell: Life


Thus yourself and the esteemed Samuel Johnson have joined minds, as it were, across the centuries to elucidate the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass :

A stone may fall and strike a foot, and in turn the foot may strike the stone.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

Chris S
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Thank you kind sir, I accept

Thank you kind sir, I accept your accolade with all due reverence. It is indeed rare these days to come across one with such similar good breeding and literary education. It would be my pecuniary pleasure it we were ever to meet, to purchase a suitable alcoholic beverage as would befit the occasion.

Do pray excuse me for one moment .....

Mumble mumble mumble, thumbs through almanac, OED, Brittanica, medical journal, what the hell do doctors drink? Ah!! of course a tincture!!

As dear Dennis Thatcher used to say, a tincture? large G&T and no tonic please!

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

Tiers Jean-Francois
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Many Thanks Bill. I had never

Many Thanks Bill.
I had never thought that GW could affect us so much.
Governments should do Something against them =)

mikey
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Good morning everyone!!

Good morning everyone!!

Chris S
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RE: Governments should do

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Governments should do Something against them =)


Quite right too. Should only be allowed when there is an G in the month. Would be quite appropriate would it not? Thank god we only get one Einstein every 100 years, think of the mess we'd be in if we had more of 'em!

Quantum mechanics is four grease monkeys down the Ford main agents that can't fix the fault on your new car!

© Chris S 2016

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

mikey
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Good morning everyone!!

Good morning everyone!!

Chris S
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It's that man again. I swear

It's that man again. I swear he posts on every Boinc project there is :-))

Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)

Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now

Bill592
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RE: It's that man again. I

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It's that man again. I swear he posts on every Boinc project there is :-))

Who ? Mikey ? Hell with his 315 Billion credits on Bitcoin ....
he can afford it !

Bill

Bill592
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This day yesterday in weather

This day yesterday in weather history: Minnesota temp extremes for
February 16th ... a 126 F degree difference!

1903: -59 F Pokegama Dam (-50.555) Celsius
1981: 67 F Canby (19.444) Celsius

Bill

David S
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Fweet! Bill posted twice in a

Fweet! Bill posted twice in a row. He owes us all a drink, right?

Catching up on old business: I found my original set of spare propellers for the drone, right about where I thought I'd lost them and where I'd swear I looked for them two or three times.

David

Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.

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