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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 16:42, Daniel B. wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. > > Nope. That sounds like clear weather to me. Sshhh!!! Disagreeing with delusional know-it-alls only provokes them.

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On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 17:39 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > ...> > > The Celsius Thermometer wil drop significantly slower the the Fahrenheit > > one. > > Only if it has more insulation. Otherwise, the temperature drops at the > same speed. Of course, yes, the _numbers_ change a

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Paul Johnson wrote: Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. Nope. That sounds like clear weather to me. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Greg Folkert wrote: ...> The Celsius Thermometer wil drop significantly slower the the Fahrenheit one. Only if it has more insulation. Otherwise, the temperature drops at the same speed. Of course, yes, the _numbers_ change at different rates. :-) Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

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Steve Lamb wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. > > Just as white is the absence of color? Exactly! (Or black in the case of emitted (as opposed to pigment) color) -- P

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:16 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:53:50 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>> Paul Johnson wrote: Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. >>> Just as white is th

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Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:53:50 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. >> Just as white is the absence of color? > .."white is the absence of color?" Yup. People say that

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:53:50 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. > > Just as white is the absence of color? .."white is the absence of color?" ..how come milk faces _change_ in color from they a

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On 19 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and >> >California) crack me up in thinking that they get weather more than >> >30 days out of any given year..

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:30:47PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/20/07 14:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:56:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/20/07 13:20, Kent West wrote: > >>> Greg Folkert wrote: > Yah got me. I can't think of more old ones. You u

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/07 14:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:56:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/20/07 13:20, Kent West wrote: >>> Greg Folkert wrote: Yah got me. I can't think of more old ones. You used the last one I

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on Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 12:18:21PM -0700 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > just think of the confusion when google turns up lists.debian.org for > burma-shave searches... Yow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:56:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/20/07 13:20, Kent West wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote: > >> Yah got me. I can't think of more old ones. You used the last one I > >> could remember. > >> > > > > When memory fails > > To recall an ad > > It's time to shave > >

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/07 13:12, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:07 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:42:06AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Greg Folkert wrote in Article >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >>> gmane.linux.

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/07 13:20, Kent West wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: >> Yah got me. I can't think of more old ones. You used the last one I >> could remember. >> > > When memory fails > To recall an ad > It's time to shave > Like dear old Dad. > > Burma-Shav

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Greg Folkert wrote: Yah got me. I can't think of more old ones. You used the last one I could remember. When memory fails To recall an ad It's time to shave Like dear old Dad. Burma-Shave -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:07 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:42:06AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote in Article > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > > > Okay then, what is more bracing: > > > > > > -40 degrees

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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 22:06 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/19/07 21:57, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/19/07 18:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> Okay then, what is more bracing

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:42:06AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote in Article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > Okay then, what is more bracing: > > > > -40 degrees Celsius > > -40 degrees Fahrenheit > > > > Come on... I am waiting!

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:41:17AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Not only that, but you can readily fix being cold with relatively available > equipment that's existed in some form or another for the last few thousand > years. Let's see Texas beat that with their wussy, electric-dependent air > c

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Paul Johnson wrote: > Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. Just as white is the absence of color? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do... ---+

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Greg Folkert wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Okay then, what is more bracing: > > -40 degrees Celsius > -40 degrees Fahrenheit > > Come on... I am waiting! It's just as cold either way. It's one thing everybody agrees on: -40 is enough

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Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and >> >California) crack me up in thinking that they ge

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Douglas Allan Tutty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:52:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> > Paul Johnson wrote: > > >>> True. So very true. The many long month

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 21:57, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/19/07 18:56, Greg Folkert wrote: >> [snip] >>> Okay then, what is more bracing: >>> >>> -40 degrees Celsius >>> -40 degrees Fahrenhe

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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/19/07 18:56, Greg Folkert wrote: > [snip] > > > > Okay then, what is more bracing: > > > > -40 degrees Celsius > > -40 degrees Fahrenheit > > > > Come on... I am waiting! > > Aqua Velva!!! I am more of a "Brut 33" ki

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 18:56, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > Okay then, what is more bracing: > > -40 degrees Celsius > -40 degrees Fahrenheit > > Come on... I am waiting! Aqua Velva!!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 17:52, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and >>> California) crack me up in thinking that they ge

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:37:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:29 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > Okay then, what is more bra

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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:29 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > Now _minus_ 83, now that's bracing! The high arctic is a desert too. > > > > > > Beards: th

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Now _minus_ 83, now that's bracing! The high arctic is a desert too. > > > > Beards: them that can, grow 'em; them that can't... live in Texas? :) > > > > BLT:

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On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:52:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> True. So very true. The many long months of uninterrupted > > > pr

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:52:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> True. So very true. The many long months of uninterrupted > > precipitation-less heat is the one thing I dislike about living in the > >

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and > >California) crack me up in thinking that they get weather more than 30 days > >out of any given year... > > Hmm. When I lived in Texas I am pr

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Paul Johnson wrote: Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and California) crack me up in thinking that they get weather more than 30 days out of any given year... True. So very true. The many long months of uninterrupted precipitation-less heat is the one thing I di

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Kent West wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> You've never seen cheapo crayons (like Prang crayons) left out on a >> hot (ie over 70 degrees Fahrenheit) day >> > Ha-haa!! You North-Westerners slay me > > Hot. 70 degrees. Ha ha h

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On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:37:21 -0500, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So, let's review. If you look back as recently as Vietnam, you can > see that we find the answer to your question. LBJ started (yes, he > actually used the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" as justification to start >

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Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > It's delusional to think that Windows won't have a post-Vista > version. You do know that Microsoft has cut the Windows team to a skeleton crew and has announced that they have no plans for a successive version,

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 16:25, Mark Kent wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:21:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Mark Kent wrote: >>> Which is the whole point, isn't it. The only important grouping here is >>> that which can breed. Those which die off can *no lon

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:21:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Mark Kent wrote: > >Which is the whole point, isn't it. The only important grouping here is > >that which can breed. Those which die off can *no longer* breed, so the > >improvement is in the *next generation* which have fewer of the >

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On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:46:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/15/07 06:40, Mark Kent wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:33:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 03/14/07 22:0

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Paul Johnson wrote: You've never seen cheapo crayons (like Prang crayons) left out on a hot (ie over 70 degrees Fahrenheit) day Ha-haa!! You North-Westerners slay me Hot. 70 degrees. Ha ha ha ha ha. ;-) -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 10:08, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/15/07 09:05, Kent West wrote: >> >>> An extinction event is not a creative event. That's all I've been >>> saying. >>> >> >> I don't know anyone on this threadlet who disagrees wi

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Celejar wrote: What you're saying is perfectly clear to me; Darwinian evolution requires as a *precondition* that there be some mechanism by which new genotypes / phenotypes can develop. Darwinism then explains how the ratios of old vs. new will trend over time. Yes! Thank you. -- Kent We

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Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/15/07 09:05, Kent West wrote: An extinction event is not a creative event. That's all I've been saying. I don't know anyone on this threadlet who disagrees with you. As I've said before, though: previously unneeded recessive genes might "suddenly" be bred into

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:49:11 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Genetic change may happen, but it's not caused (or guaranteed, or even > prompted to go in a positive or a negative direction) by extinction > events. The extinction of one sub-group does not automatically add > i

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 09:21, Kent West wrote: > Mark Kent wrote: >> Which is the whole point, isn't it. The only important grouping here is >> that which can breed. Those which die off can *no longer* breed, so the >> improvement is in the *next generation* wh

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 09:05, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> That's right. The *survivors* don't improve; the *species* improves. >> > > Well, if by "improve" you mean "purify", "make more homogenous", "weed > out the weaker, less-fit individuals",

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Mark Kent wrote: Which is the whole point, isn't it. The only important grouping here is that which can breed. Those which die off can *no longer* breed, so the improvement is in the *next generation* which have fewer of the defective or no longer useful gene/genetic characteristics. Bingo!! Th

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Ron Johnson wrote: That's right. The *survivors* don't improve; the *species* improves. Well, if by "improve" you mean "purify", "make more homogenous", "weed out the weaker, less-fit individuals", yes. But that's not the definition of "improve" I was using. I was using the meaning "to

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Paul Johnson wrote: More seriously, though, it does demonstrate that mass die-offs or survival aren't necessarily the products of genetics, which is what the point to the analogy was. _Thank you!_ That's very close to what I was trying to say, only in just the reverse: genetic-change is not

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 06:40, Mark Kent wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:33:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/14/07 22:01, Kent West wrote: > >>> Good analogy, because I'm not talking about whether

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Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: >> This does not change my point that "there's a disconnect in the thinking >> that the extinction of the less-fit automatically means the survivors >> have seen some sort of improvement". >> >> It's like a populat

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:33:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/14/07 22:01, Kent West wrote: > > Good analogy, because I'm not talking about whether change can happen or > > not; I'm merely saying that an extinction event in one sub-group

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 22:01, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/14/07 18:53, Kent West wrote: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/14/07 11:39, Kent West wrote: > Not to rain on Darwin's parade, but, um, the death of t

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Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/14/07 18:53, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/14/07 11:39, Kent West wrote: Not to rain on Darwin's parade, but, um, the death of the unfit does not mean that the survivors have automagically improved. They're still the same ol' critters they

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 18:53, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/14/07 11:39, Kent West wrote: >> >>> Not to rain on Darwin's parade, but, um, the death of the unfit does not >>> mean that the survivors have automagically improved. They're still the

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Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/14/07 11:39, Kent West wrote: Not to rain on Darwin's parade, but, um, the death of the unfit does not mean that the survivors have automagically improved. They're still the same ol' critters they were before the unfit died off. (It might can be argued that the impro

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 11:39, Kent West wrote: > Atis wrote: >>> >> On 03/04/07 10:51, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> [snip] >>> > ..the problem is not rpms, but mill wing speed and color in overcast >>> > weather, as in white camo against white fog or clouds. >>> >>> Th

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Atis wrote: >> On 03/04/07 10:51, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] > ..the problem is not rpms, but mill wing speed and color in overcast > weather, as in white camo against white fog or clouds. Think of this as "enforced Darwinism"! Right, after several generations we will have high-speed, high-m