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"Lucas, Peter" wrote:
> 
> PatDaRat <pat.@rat.com.au> wrote in news:4026F5B2.94C5BE8C@rat.com.au:
> 
> > "Lucas, Peter" wrote:
> >>
> >> PatDaRat <pat.@rat.com.au> wrote in news:4026F2B7.82F7A13@rat.com.au:
> >>
> >> > "Lucas, Peter" wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Paul Benards <paulb@work> wrote in
> >> >> news:b8e458d2e267107fda659c5f417bed2a@news.teranews.com:
> >> >>
> >> >> > Hi again,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Replying to my own email :-)
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Just found these:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > http://www.hometheatre.net.au/rs430c.htm
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> You can get the same sort of setup from Hardly Normals for about
> $50
> >> >> (IIRC)
> >> >>
> >> >> I've used them before and they are quite good. I don't use them
> >> anymore
> >> >> mainly due to the security aspect. You can't hear what's going on
> >> around
> >> >> you when they are on :-)
> >> >
> >> > That's what body-guards are for.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I still like to hear what's going on around me :-)
> >
> > Sorry, but I disagree.  What if your body guard hits some dude, and
> the
> > dude is piss-weak like Hooksey and drops down dead?  You are better
> off
> > not hearing or seeing anything.  Just let the body guard fry and get
> > another one.  You don't want to be tied up giving evidence in court do
> > you?
> >
> 
> Hmmmm, you could be right there!!
> 
> And what it........ a meteor was screaming down to land on your
> house/head and you didn't have time to get out of it's way... you
> wouldn't want to know it was going to happen, would you?

If you were inside your house watching tv, you may hear the meteor, but
you wouldn't have any idea where it was going to land - so you wouldn't
know how to get out of its way.   Besides, that argument is flawed. 
Meteors don't make a sound - the only sound you would hear would be the
sound of the movement of air around the meteor - which would be some
significant seconds behind the meteor.  You do remember that sound
travels much slower than light?  Besides, surely the body guard could be
trained to alert you to such things as a meteor shower?  (at extra cost
of course).