From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 00:11:53 MDT
Some of the questions from Spike:
> How much power could be saved if the light inside
> the refrigerator were not left on all the time?
Go to your fridge and close the door to a very tiny crack, peer in, then
close it all the way really slowly (I assume this works for USian
fridges...)
> If Ameridebt got some loser's monthly payment cut
> in half, why didn't he just call them again and get
> it cut in forth, then an eighth and so on until he
> was debt free?
He'd never quite be debt free, of course. He wouldn't want to cut his debt
down past the cost of a phone call + an envelope + a stamp + a cheque.
>
> Does *anyone* who hangs out on extropians or SL4
> ever read actual *fiction*, without the prefix
> science? Sears and Roebuck catalogs?
I read some Dickens recently.
> How did the diet thread get so huge?
Projection.
> If we somehow accidentally discovered a seventh
> quark flavor, wont the physicists be majorly screwed
> up? Would they attempt a cover-up? Would we call
> it still-more-strange?
Probably Seriously-fucked-up.
Emlyn
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