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Article #2664Re: Port Holes (Hint)
From: Robert Groom
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:08
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:08
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grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray) writes: >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? So there aren't any corners, of course. ;-) Doesn't this question really belong in sci.stress.analysis? -- Robert Q. Groom "My other computer is an EOS-1" robert@labtam.oz.au Labtam Australia Pty Ltd phone: +61-3-587-1444 fax: +61-3-580-5581
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Newsgroups: rec.puzzles Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!titan!trlluna!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!labtam!labtam!robert From: robert@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Robert Groom) Subject: Re: Port Holes (Hint) Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:08:30 GMT Message-ID: <robert.726815310@labtam> References: <13797@grayt> <1993Jan7.004012.29368@cs.cornell.edu> <13812@grayt> Lines: 26