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In article <3989@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us> snarfy@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:

>          At location A
>                    |     There is an Electromagnetic Field
>                    |     Disturbance  ( a  voltage  )
>                    |     that is  drained  at location B  _____
>                    |     by means of shunting the voltage      \
>                    |     with a resistance  , producing         \
>                    |     heat at location B . Heat appearing     \
>                    |     at B is a result of energy extracted    |
>                    |     from A .  Heats (watts) cannot result   |
>                    V     at B until Amps ( energy flow ) can be  V
>                          detected at A.
>
>                    *                                             *
>
>                    A                                             B

     Actually, I get heat when I shunt a voltage source with a resistor     
     regardless of who is trying to radio me.

>
>                            Reference Article
>
>       Title of Article: Immediate Interstellar Communications
>                 Author: Philip B. Wright
>           Organization: University of Winnepeg, Winnepeg Canada R3B 2E9
>            Publication: Speculations in Science and Technology
>              Publisher: Elsevier Sequioa Lausanne
>                  LIb #: ISSN 0155-7785
>                  Issue: August 1979 ,Vol 2 #3

     This is hardly Physical Review Letters.  The requirements for 
     publication are somewhat less stringent to say the least.

>        `` Meanwhile , here we sit with several good parabolic antennas,
>        presumably waiting for something exciting to happen , perhaps in
>        Morse code....''

     Presumably they have heard something in the intervening 13 years?

                            dale bass
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