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>Precedence: bulk >From: JCG <geary@cf*.ha*.ed*> >Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:19:43 EDT >Subject: Re: WKPP - Results - Tripple This >To: techdiver > >This business of taking an empty tank down reminds >me of a trick Bruce Bowker taught me down on Bonaire >a few years back. This works well if you have a >bunch of tanks of identical construction and size. >If you hold the each tank by the valve and strike >the bottom on the floor, you can hear which ones >are full or empty by the sound produced. > Gee JC,I would never strike the floor or the ceiling for that matter,(its just not the kinda thing one should go around doing in caves).Oh! you meant on a concrete floor or the ground (nevermind). >Now, for the benefit of any red-neck, bone-smuggling, >pony-petting strokes who might be reading this >list, I am opening the floor to debate: >does a full tank make a higher or lower tone when >struck than an empty one? > >Inquiring minds want to know. >--JCG > Hum,I don't have a red neck nor can I say I've ever smuggled bones and I never ever caused a baby horse to have a stroke just by petting it but, is this a trick question? Or do dense things go thud? > JD Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@terra.net'. >Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@terra.net'. >
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