From: Mike Lyle on
John Holmes wrote:
> Otto Bahn wrote:
>> "Peter Moylan" <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote
> [...]
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
>>> For an e-mail address, see my web page.
>>
>> What's not safe for work about Newcastle?! Does Australia
>> have zero tolerance in the workplace?
>
> You've got the abbreviation wrong. It stands for Newcastle, Sydney,
> Wollongong.

I once, out of mere devilment, invented a proverb about the 'Gong, but
it didn't catch on.

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From: Bill Marcum on
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On 2010-03-11, Peter Moylan <gro.nalyomp(a)retep> wrote:
> Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
>> Here are four more interesting questions: Given the stated premise that
>> Klein bottles "contain everything", for a bottle with a finite radius of
>> cross-section (say 1 metre), what is the mean density of its contents?
>> How big does such a Klein bottle need to be before its surface is
>> outside of its event horizon? What about outside of its Schwarzschild
>> radius? Would such a Klein bottle be considered rotating or non-rotating?
>>
> Ordinary Klein bottles contain all of space. A sufficiently large
> _rotating_ Klein bottle would contain all of time.
>
Somebody alert Al Gore! A Klein thermos bottle is the solution to global
warming.

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From: Bill Marcum on
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On 2010-03-10, Chuck Riggs <chriggs(a)eircom.net> wrote:
> On 10 Mar 2010 00:22:05 -0800, R H Draney <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
>>David DeLaney filted:
>>>
>>>Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups(a)NTLWorld.COM> wrote:
>>>>> They are empty, they contain everything, including themselves and any
>>>>> scale you use to weight them, so they cannot have weight.
>>>>
>>>>So here's an interesting question, then: What's the acceleration due to
>>>>gravity at the surface of a Klein bottle?
>>>
>>>It's a trick question, because Klein bottles do not suck.
>>
>>Maybe you should check that statement with *Mrs* Klein....r
>
> No can do. She's in another dimension.

With voyeuristic intention?

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From: Bill Marcum on
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On 2010-03-12, Otto Bahn <Ladybrrane(a)GroinToHell.com> wrote:
> "R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote
>
>>>> Here are four more interesting questions: Given the stated premise that
>>>> Klein bottles "contain everything", for a bottle with a finite radius of
>>>> cross-section (say 1 metre), what is the mean density of its contents?
>>>> How big does such a Klein bottle need to be before its surface is
>>>> outside of its event horizon? What about outside of its Schwarzschild
>>>> radius? Would such a Klein bottle be considered rotating or
>>>> non-rotating?
>>>>
>>>Ordinary Klein bottles contain all of space. A sufficiently large
>>>_rotating_ Klein bottle would contain all of time.
>>
>> Perhaps one *does*...that would sort of close the book on cosmology,
>> wouldn't
>> it?...r
>
> Ack! DO NOT REPEAT DO NOT close the book on cosmology. I'd rather
> die a slow heat death.
>
A Klein thermos bottle would prevent that.

> --oTTo--
>
>


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