Re: [gardeners] Rain!!
Catharine Vinson (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 21:56:26 +0000
George wrote:
> Since sunspots affect communications
> wave lengths and tend to "bend" the color spectrum there may indeed be a
> correlary. Hmmm, interesting postulation. What say ye, oh scientific guru's
> of the list? Me and Catharine are just ordinary old oil field trash.
At one time General Dynamics was having a major problem with a large
mainframe installation in a new office building. The drives of all the
boxes (all lined up against an exterior wall) were always going haywire
for none of the usual rasons. Technicians were flown in by the bucket
load, necessitating the laying in of vast amounts of Twinkies, Ding Dongs
and Oreos.. Hard drives were replaced and replaced and replaced. One of
the engineers (a radio geek, natch) started keeping records of solar
flares (disturbances in electromagnetic field) and drive failure. Perfect
correlation. So, in true geek fashion, he rigged up a "cage" of chicken
wire to surround the vastly expensive and Highly Important mainframes. It
worked.
Catharine