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Re: [TowerTalk] The Future of Towers & Antennas?

To: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] The Future of Towers & Antennas?
From: n8de@thepoint.net
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:59:29 -0400
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You're absolutely correct with your analysis.

Now, Joe, let's leave Catholocism out of this discussion.
I attended many forced masses.

Don
N8DE

Quoting "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>:

>
>> I just love 'advertising lingo'.
>
> It's not advertising lingo ... it's the terrible status of
> our educational system that allows a professional writer
> to say "10 times lighter" rather "weighs one tenth as much
> as" or (properly for a physicist) "has one tenth the mass
> of" steel.  Not only do even professional writers not know
> the concept of relative quantities, even fewer understand
> the difference between force and mass.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> n8de@thepoint.net
>> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 3:30 PM
>> To: Terry
>> Cc: Towertalk Reflector
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] The Future of Towers & Antennas?
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>>
>> I just love 'advertising lingo'.
>>
>> 10 times lighter.
>>
>> ONE time lighter means it weighs NOTHING.
>>
>> I'll see if I can think how it can be -9 g.
>>
>> Don
>> N8DE
>>
>>
>>
>> Quoting Terry <terry@kk6t.com>:
>>
>> > "Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger
>> > than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed
>> together to form
>> > a composite. Unlike conventional composite materials, though, it
>> > conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like
>> > steel or brass."
>> >
>> > http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081017/tec_buckypaper.html?.v=2
>> >
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