Re: Why does ampere become "I"?

From: necoandjeff (spam_at_schrepfer.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 00:41:43 GMT

Curt Fischer wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
>> Curt Fischer wrote:
>>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>>> "Curt Fischer" wrote ...
>>>>> Paul Blay wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Why do the trains tilt? How does tilting make them go faster?
>>>>
>>>> Well if rail tracks looked like this
>>>>
>>>> =====================================================================
>>>>
>>>> there wouldn't be any point in tilting. However I shall quote
>>>> myself ...
>>>>
>>>> "I'm guessing from the 'blocks' that you are in America. Where I
>>>> come street maps look more like someone has thrown up spaghetti,
>>>> than that someone accidently published graph-paper as a map."
>>>>
>>>> The idea was exactly the same as cars tilting when you go round
>>>> corners -
>>>> to avoid everybody banging their heads on the side windows at every
>>>> other bend. And the UK transportation system has a heck of a lot
>>>> of bends.
>>>
>>> Ahh, OK, that makes sense. It's only on the turns that they tilt.
>>> That's simple! Thanks for the explanation.
>>
>> In my experience, the shihatsu out of Roppongi on Saturday and Sunday
>> morning is also a tilting train.
>
> That's funny, the train didn't seem to tilt during its first 500m out
> of the station nor did it tilt during its approach to my old station,
> Minami Machida. I don't remember much about the part between, though.

Dude, you get some serious J-points if you too have developed the ability,
mastered by so many salarymen, to go nearly unconscious for most of the
train ride home, and yet somehow magically gather all of your belongings and
get off at the proper station, all while remaining in a state of
semi-consciousness.

Jeff

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