At 10:42 pm 20/08/2005 +0200, Knuke wrote: > Grimer wrote: > >> The ideas are certainly not in danger of straining *your* brain. <g> >> Jones and Horace seemed to manage OK.
> Yeah Ok, I usually strain my noodle about a minute after it comes to a > boil, then I recall the exhortations of my parents to use it, and I > reluctantly attempt to do so. I think that even though we are both > quite fluent in English, we are talking two different languages, but > that is OK. I never understood what my parents were telling me either. > > My background in vacuum technologies comes from my work on large > refrigeration systems and desalinization gear. The gauges go down to > zero (1 atm), and then start reading in Inches of Mercury. As far as I > know, no one has ever achieved a perfect vacuum, nor has anyone managed > to suck beyond that point (although Halliburton and the legal department > of Microsoft are competing intensely for that honor). > > I have had some training and practical experience in structural > engineering, but not that much. I have done very little work with > concrete, but I have done more than a bit with steel. I will root > around for your papers, No need to root around. Emulate the medical students who, when being asked by their examiner to say what a patient is suffering from, surreptitiously ask the patient. You will find two of the papers in the file section of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Beta-atmosphere_group/ and the book chapter in the photo section. > P.S. Jones and Horace are geniuses. So are Fred and Bill. Very true. But you know what they say, Knukey. "It takes one to know one." ;-) Cheers, Frank
