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Re: Online Zakat Payment: Religious tithe.
On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, jim bell wrote:
> At 07:13 PM 2/17/96 +0000, Ed Carp wrote:
> >On Sat, 17 Feb 1996, jim bell wrote:
> >
> >> BTW, I think I've already solved the problem of producing a few dozen
> >> absolutely simultaneous trigger explosions (+/- 100 nanoseconds) around the
> >> periphery at the lens foci, without using multiple electronic detonators.
> >> (in fact, a single blasting cap would do nicely.) "But the margins of this
> >> book are too small to contain it" Heh heh!
> >
> >Actually, it's a quite simple problem to solve. Tom Clancy used a rather
> >more complicated method, but the idea was correct.
>
> You might be surprised: I have never read anything by Clancy. Tell me,
> what method did HE use?
A single electronic timer. The lengths of wire from the timer/detonator
to each piece of explosive was exact - thus, the pulse reached each piece
of explosive at the same time.
I think Clancy used multiple timers, each triggered at the same time. I
don't think that one would need but one timer, though.
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through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a
waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and
asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'"
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