Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:29:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: bees on the wing
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Ron Kean wrote:

> According to a recent news report, a truck in Kansas overturned
> carrying 25 million bees. ...

Reminds me of an old Arthur C. Clarke story.

> Suppose that bees inside a closed truck were all flying around
> inside the cargo space.  Would the truck then register less weight
> on a truck scale than if the bees were just sitting on the floor of
> the cargo container?

No.  But if you were to replace all those bees with helium balloons...

Ted White wrote:

> Didn't this get discussed at a WSFA meeting earlier this year?

Ron hasn't been to any meetings this year.  Or in the second half of
last year, either.

At Friday's meeting, another person asked who he was.

Perhaps he'll show up at one or both meetings in July.
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