No, they like Rock music in Iraq. They wait until the camels are drinking water, and sneak up on 'em with a couple of rocks and.......
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:34 PM
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I guess that's the problem; they want to B Major but with all the dissonance it just winds up being a cacophony.
Thank you,
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De: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] En nombre de Hfjord Enviado el: Martes, 04 de Septiembre de 2007 03:29 p.m.
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Better than being a catapulp tester...meow Your song contest story got 7 points of 10 possible. Very odd profession.
What's them tuned in Iraq? B Minor?
/Inge
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Från: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] För Karl Hunsinger
Skickat: den 4 september 2007 20:20
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A very noble story. But is it also said that Octavius had perfect pitch? :)
Karl
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Whittaker, Dewey
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Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:25 PM
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Importance: Low
My first job was as a CTE (Catapult Test Engineer) for a King who wanted to improve the accuracy of his artillery. Earlier he had told his Court to learn how flutes on an arrow improved flight and accuracy and apply the lessons learned to the Catapult. So the call went out to build the best Flute.
Lacking adequate requirements definition, some of the best piccolos started to show up.
The king grabbed one and threw it and down to symbolic defeat. In doing so it made a very shrill sound and hit his boot (this became the first footnote in history). So my job was to test and install flutes on Catapults.
The obvious thing was use it for pitch and altitude adjustment. After the scale models were made it was time for testing.
I had many youths available to me that were on loan from the Knight shift. They were chosen for their mass (not choice of funeral services needed, but weight) and digital skills. At launch they were to precisely hold the flute to the air. We had to go through a lot of pages before we got the directions right. The number of notes they could hit established velocity and the length of the song gave distance (this was the creation of the term Artillery range); how they landed was on their own accord.
So now you could adjust the trajectory to B flat or have A sharp rise in elevation. One of my best helpers, Octavius could always tell which team would win the accuracy contest.
And so it was to come to be known that I was the first person credited with the ability to fine-tune the instruments of destruction.
Dewey
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Ellis
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 12:31 AM
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Subject: [TN] OT: reminiscences
When I was a student, in 1948, I took a summer job with a company making
aircraft gyroscopic gunsights. My work involved:
1. mixing potassium bichromate with fish glue 2. applying a coat of this mix to a very thin blackened steel sheet 3. after drying, exposing same to UV light through glass photographic plates with registration pins, turning over and doing the same on t'other side (different plate) 4. developing the image with hot water 5. etching the sheet in nitric acid 6. rinsing in clean water 7. stripping the resist in boiling strong sodium hydroxide solution
The result was about twenty graticules with two curved, very fine, slots. If two were placed back-to-back, depending on their respective positions, two dots of light shone through. These were projected on a half-silvered mirror and the gunner would turn a knob to align the two dots of light with the wingtips of the enemy aircraft, to get the range.
This was a very hazardous job but it was my first (but not last!) experience of using a photoresist for etching a metal. Can anyone beat this kind of work, going back 59 years? :-)
Brian
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