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From: "Scott Landon" <js_landon@ho*.co*>
To: rose@CS*.SC*.ED*, js_landon@ho*.co*
Cc: joeldm@mi*.co*, kevin@nw*.co*, armantrout@mc*.co*,
     cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: another stupid question..LOL
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 16:06:47 PDT
they are, but i promised barry and jj that i would keep it secret until he 
files for the patent.


>From: "John R. Rose" <rose@CS*.SC*.ED*>
>To: Scott Landon <js_landon@ho*.co*>
>CC: joeldm@mi*.co*, kevin@nw*.co*, armantrout@mc*.co*,        
>cavers@cavers.com
>Subject: Re: another stupid question..LOL
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 16:56:26 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Crap, Scott. Now you've gone and ruined it for Joel. He was having fun
>waiting to see if someone was going to suggest that HID is as good as
>superman's x-ray vision. And anyway, as long as he's keeping his eyes
>closed, he won't need a light.
>
>On Mon, 8 May 2000, Scott Landon wrote:
>
> > at some point as things clear, no-vis turns into bad vis or low vis.  
>how
> > long do you want to not see in the bad vis?  an extra few minutes?  of
> > course nothing helps in no-vis.  it is that transition out of no-vis 
>that
> > matters or the general low vis to start.
> >
> >
> > >From: Joel Markwell <joeldm@mi*.co*>
> > >To: Kevin Connell <kevin@nw*.co*>, Scott Landon 
><js_landon@ho*.co*>,
> > >      <armantrout@mc*.co*>
> > >CC: <cavers@cavers.com>
> > >Subject: Re: another stupid question..LOL
> > >Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 15:43:23 -0500
> > >
> > >on 5/8/00 2:17 PM, Kevin Connell at kevin@nw*.co* wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've seen the HID in both high vis, low vis and almost no-vis.
> > > >
> > > > It is a much tighter, more effective beam in all cases.
> > >
> > >An interesting reply. Clearly you weren't responding to me since I 
>didn't
> > >mention low-vis except to indicate that it might be effective there. 
>What I
> > >did indicate was that I have never seen a light that can penetrate a 
>total
> > >siltout of the kind described.
> > >
> > >Are you also saying that this light can penetrate, to a useful degree,
> > >total
> > >silt-out conditions such as one might find in a low-flow cave zapped 
>with
> > >deep silt/clay and/or narrow crawl-throughs, same conditions, low-flow,
> > >deep
> > >silt/clay?
> > >
> > >Tighter, more effective, sure, I agree, incredibly so. If you can 
>afford
> > >it,
> > >dive with it. Rely on it for what it is and what it can do.
> > >
> > >Please clarify.
> > >
> > >Later,
> > >
> > >JoeL
> > >
> >
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