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- From: mike@drseus.jsc.nasa.gov (Mike Ross)
- Subject: Re: Contraption building ideas?????
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165136.25604@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:51:36 GMT
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- One I saw in school was make an ordinary mouse-trap into a car,
- and see which one goes the farthest on the energy stored in the
- trap. Winning model put vinyl LPs on each side (Barry Manilow,
- I think :-) ), with string from trap bar to axle wraparound.
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- Mike
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