Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now the folks with common sense are raiding business's air conditioners. Cut the condensate high and low pressure lines and you might have ten pounds of copper. My favorite E-6 lab was down for two days last summer because of this foraging activity. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@bellsouth.net> wrote: > 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 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <grduprey@mchsi.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com