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Article #2659Re: Port Holes
From: Tom Gray
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:21
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:21
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In article <1993Jan7.004012.29368@cs.cornell.edu> karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr) writes: >In article <13797@grayt> grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes: >> >>Why are ship port holes round? > >Why, because they wouldn't look *nautical* otherwise, of course. >Imagine if your boat had square windows all over the hull; it would >look like some landlubber's *house*, for goodness' sake! Well that may be one reason but there is a much more important reason. A Royal Navy destroyer sank because the builders were not aware of the reason. An ocaen liner had an elevator installed nad was almost completely destroyed in an instant because the designers forgot the reason. So - why are port holes round? -- i.sinature
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!uotcsi2!revcan!software.mitel.com!grayt From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Subject: Re: Port Holes Message-ID: <13812@grayt> Date: 11 Jan 93 17:21:09 GMT References: <13797@grayt> <1993Jan7.004012.29368@cs.cornell.edu> Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada. Lines: 21