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- From: mcampbel@cs.ucf.edu (Mike Campbell )
- Subject: Re: Electric Field Question
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- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:22:31 GMT
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- rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes:
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- >No. Nor yet in Scotland, Wales, or any part of Ireland (to the best
- >of my knowledge). Rationale (I've posted this once before, but it
- >plainly didn't sink in):
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- >1) We don't get that much sun (we're a good bit further North than the
- > (even remotely) heavily-populated parts of N America, and we have
- > the gulf stream to contend with, which tends to give us moist
- > summers)
- >2) Our roads tend to be rather narrow, so that people who drive with
- > an arm hanging out of the window lose their arm by interaction with
- > oncoming traffic rather than through cancer
-
- Oh come on! Surely the MIRRORS would be hit before the arms... When we say
- arms hanging out, we don't mean out parallel to the road!
-
- There'd be a LOT of missing mirrors and door handles, (and fenders, and
- bumpers) is this was even remotely significant.
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-