From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2000 - 08:29:19 MDT
John Clark wrote:
>
> Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> Wrote:
>
> >The famous $x00 hammer that started the meme that the government was being
> >wasteful, etc, was a modal hammer, [...] has accelerometers mounted on it to measure
> >resonances and vibration modes.
>
> What about the $1500 toilet seat, did it have accelerometers mounted on it to measure
> resonances and vibration modes too?
It had to undergo extensive g-force testing to ensure that it would not
flop around and break under extensive maneuvering, and we bought fewer
of those than of the hammers...
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