Nature is full of these ironies. My favorite is that when bread and crackers
are exposed to the same environment, the bread becomes hard and the crackers
become soft!

Freshly baked bread is full of moisture, and a nice crisp cracker is dry.
After a while the bread loses its moisture and hardens, while the cracker
absorbs moisture and softens. Is this the moisture in the ground analogy you
are talking about?
73 Gary N4AST

Nature is full of these ironies. My favorite is that when bread and crackers
are exposed to the same environment, the bread becomes hard and the crackers
become soft!

Freshly baked bread is full of moisture, and a nice crisp cracker is dry.
After a while the bread loses its moisture and hardens, while the cracker
absorbs moisture and softens. Is this the moisture in the ground analogy you
are talking about?
73 Gary N4AST

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:39:44 -0400, "Chuck"
wrote:


Nature is full of these ironies. My favorite is that when bread and crackers
are exposed to the same environment, the bread becomes hard and the crackers
become soft! (Posted on someone's door at Stanford Research Institue back in
the 60's.)

Chuck


Not so ironic at all. The bread lost it's moisture but the cracker
absorbed it due to the salt being a natural desiccant. The irony was
lost because the outcome was predictable.

OK, I know . . . no one likes a smart ass :-)

Ron, W1WBV

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:39:44 -0400, "Chuck"
wrote:


Nature is full of these ironies. My favorite is that when bread and crackers
are exposed to the same environment, the bread becomes hard and the crackers
become soft! (Posted on someone's door at Stanford Research Institue back in
the 60's.)

Chuck


Not so ironic at all. The bread lost it's moisture but the cracker
absorbed it due to the salt being a natural desiccant. The irony was
lost because the outcome was predictable.

OK, I know . . . no one likes a smart ass :-)

Ron, W1WBV

Ron and Gary: Good analyses! Indeed, because the outcome was expected, there
was no irony. Now that I recall, the sign on the door had been in reference
to the seeming perversity of nature, rather than to irony. I keep forgetting
that my memory is slipping.

Chuck

Ron and Gary: Good analyses! Indeed, because the outcome was expected, there
was no irony. Now that I recall, the sign on the door had been in reference
to the seeming perversity of nature, rather than to irony. I keep forgetting
that my memory is slipping.

Chuck