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- From: palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Electric Power Transmission
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.190945.23798@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University
- References: <1992Nov11.154425.8399@speedy.aero.org> <HAGERMAN.92Nov19204019@rx7.ece.cmu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:09:45 GMT
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- In article <HAGERMAN.92Nov19204019@rx7.ece.cmu.edu> hagerman@ece.cmu.edu (John
- Hagerman) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov19.202817.29139@sfu.ca> palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)
- writes:
- >>
- >> Wow. Thanks for the information, John. I hope someone will be able
- >> to drop the other shoe and tell us where to learn more about this
- >> twenty-year-old technology.
- >
- >Your ability to communicate sarcasm without a smiley is nice to see.
- >But I fear that your comments may mask one important point of my post,
- >which was to demonstrate that many of the questions asked here can be
- >sufficiently answered by a tiny bit of research. Need I explain why
- >actually doing such research is useful?
-
- I've failed again, I'm afraid. I wasn't being sarcastic; I have no idea
- how this is done, and since I teach physics, I think that is a lacuna
- in my knowledge which needs to be filled. I asked some specific
- questions about generation and distribution, and I'd really like to
- know the answers to those questions.
-
- I've only recently adopted the "smiley" (my version has a double chin)
- because I was being misunderstood. I am quite vain about my command of
- the language, and I had never seen a smiley in Mark Twain, so I didn't
- use them, either. Now I see that it can work the other way as well.
-
- Leigh
-