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PatDaRat <pat.@rat.com.au> wrote in news:4026FB10.BFC1140D@rat.com.au:

> "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 

Didn't you watch "Armegeddon"?? They make *lots* of 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).

But if he was watching the sky, he wouldn't see the 'dude' coming at 
him!! 



-- 
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

You have to learn how to die, before you can learn how to live.