[Leica] Copper Wire

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

For some, logic can prove anything!  These are the types that end up in 
Washington, D.C.

With the current price of copper going through the roof, anyone with common 
sense would have sold it at the nearest salvage yard.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:39 PM
Subject: [Leica] Copper Wire


> Something to think about...
>
> After having dug to a depth of 10 yards last year, New York scientists 
> found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the 
> conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 
> 100 years ago.
>
> Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, 
> California scientists dug to a depth of 20 yards, and shortly after, 
> headlines in the LA Times newspaper read: 'California archaeologists have 
> found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their 
> ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a 
> hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers.'
>
> One week later, " The Express News," a local newspaper in Texas  reported 
> the following:
>
> 'After digging as deep as 30 yards in corn fields near Austin ,  Bubba 
> Johnson , a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely 
> nothing.  Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Texas  had 
> already gone wireless.'
>
> Gene
>
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