Eddy current brake on the platter, Frank ... you been talkin' to Mark Kelly too, or is this one of those hundred monkey sort of things?
Cheerio,
Thom @ Galibier
Cheerio,
Thom @ Galibier
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Hi Frank, "Hundred Monkey" - a hundred monkeys pedaling bicycles attached to a turntable platter with no cogging ;-) Actually, the "research" claims (largely discredited) that coincidental, spontaneous, quantum learning occurs in groups which separated by time and space. You can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth-monkey_effect. Yes, Mark is serving the greater good elsewhere at the moment. Cheers, Thom |
Thanks Frank, Actually, I suspected that the real reason for the common thinking was even more direct - that since Mark Kelly hangs out on John Atwood's Clarsonus Blog, that a dialog ensued between the two of them at some point in time. The hundredth monkey thing was a bit of American humor ... twisted though we might be on this side of the Pond ;-) Sorry that it was obtuse to you. Sometimes, we forget the cross-cultural thing ... Cheers, Thom @ Galibierr |