Posted By: JTimothyA
FSB discovers anti-gravity device - 08/05/00 07:57 AM
Few of you know that for years now Mark has been working weekends in his lab deep beneath the FSB.
For a while it was a method to compress and decompress styrofoam peanuts - but that didn't pan out. (We still have a room we can't get into.) Then there was the holographic wind projector for some new HL tree prototypes, but that project died when BoB did. And the digital amanuensis to allow BY to sign a thousand models at once? Well nevermind.
But after several weeks of being very secretive he's finally emerged and this time he may be on to something...
Everyone knows that a cat always lands on its feet.
And everyone knows that when toast is dropped it always lands buttered side down.
Well - Mark put two and two together and strapped a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat. When dropped the cat appears to hover in mid-air, spinning infinitely a few inches off the ground.
We're bringing in that Randi fellow next week to check it all out. If all goes well Mark was thinking of going to the Democratic Convention for spin control. Hmmmm... a very large array of buttered cats - d'ya think there's any money in this?
Rgds,
Saint Foucault
[This message has been edited by JTimothyA (edited 08-05-2000).]
For a while it was a method to compress and decompress styrofoam peanuts - but that didn't pan out. (We still have a room we can't get into.) Then there was the holographic wind projector for some new HL tree prototypes, but that project died when BoB did. And the digital amanuensis to allow BY to sign a thousand models at once? Well nevermind.
But after several weeks of being very secretive he's finally emerged and this time he may be on to something...
Everyone knows that a cat always lands on its feet.
And everyone knows that when toast is dropped it always lands buttered side down.
Well - Mark put two and two together and strapped a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat. When dropped the cat appears to hover in mid-air, spinning infinitely a few inches off the ground.
We're bringing in that Randi fellow next week to check it all out. If all goes well Mark was thinking of going to the Democratic Convention for spin control. Hmmmm... a very large array of buttered cats - d'ya think there's any money in this?
Rgds,
Saint Foucault
[This message has been edited by JTimothyA (edited 08-05-2000).]
