Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/22

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Subject: [Leica] Copper Wire
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Sat Mar 22 06:18:12 2008
References: <032220080339.7124.47E47F780001A77400001BD4219792474103010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com> <016001c88bd1$c6fd1680$6101a8c0@jimnichols>

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
> >
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-- 
Don
don.dory@gmail.com

Replies: Reply from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Copper Wire)
Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Copper Wire)
In reply to: Message from grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com) ([Leica] Copper Wire)
Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Copper Wire)