straydog wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jul 2005 wrote:
Date: 14 Jul 2005 20:48:16 -0700
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
Subject: QUESTION: Fun with Svetlanas or Staying alive with kV power
supplies
From: straydog on Fri 15 Jul 2005 00:48
That's called trial and error. Or, try, smoke, fix. Like if ready, fire,
aim does not work, change the order to ready, aim, fire.
All electronics works on smoke. If the smoke leaks out,
it won't work...
;-) Reminds me of another joke I can't quite remember: something
dealing with the proof that electricity is really smoke, or something
like that. Maybe someone has a reference to that joke. It was pretty
funny, too.
Art, W4PON
But electricity _is_ really smoke. They burn coal at the generating
station and it travels through the wires to your house, where it makes
everything work. Then the used smoke goes _back_ through the wires (why
do you think they call them "return" wires, eh?) to the generating
station where it goes up the smokestack.
If something should break then some of the smoke will leak out right
there in your house right before the thing stops working.
And that's how you know that electricity is smoke.
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