From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 5 05:34:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12077 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 05:34:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org (dialup2.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12072 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 05:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@gaffaneys.com) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA23945; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:35:37 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19981105073537.A23883@znh.org> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 07:35:37 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Kris Kirby , "Jason C. Wells" Cc: FreeBSD-chat Subject: Re: Why SGML for docs? References: <3641959C.4E755EF1@airnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3641959C.4E755EF1@airnet.net>; from Kris Kirby on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 06:10:04AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 06:10:04AM -0600, Kris Kirby wrote: > University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) is appearently known for a > concrete and composite carbon fiber watercraft of some type. The entire > idea of a boat out of concrete... Speaking of concrete watercraft... The civil engineering class at UND (university of north dakota) made a canoe out of concrete and chicken wire. The final requirement was that it be tested successfully in the nearby river. I talked to the group working on it while they were trawling the bottom, pondering how much it would weigh. Their estimate was ~120-130 lbs. (I think they used styrofoam beads instead of sand and gravel). ~120 lbs is really not that far out of line for a canoe... (yes, I've been to the boundary waters multiple times -- Given the choice of lugging my ~65lbs. canoe or renting one of those nice ~45 lb. canoes, I always choose the later) -- Zach Heilig If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have to at least consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidę on our hands (Douglas Adams -- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message