Re: Mandelbrot II GS vs Turbo Mandelbrot

[glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <1993Apr7.115423.17048@ifi.unizh.ch> gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (gudat henrik) writes:
>irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
>: In article <uerics.733961930@mcl> uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd) writes:
>: >Unless I missed it, none of you have considered the possibility of using
>: >hamster power.
>: 
>: We did, but it would require approximately 213 hamsters to generate the
>: necessary power level. [...]

>Also, you need to feed them constantly with salad, and you cannot tell
>the hamsters to run at half speed for 110V current. Also, a hamster
>running at 100% all the time is exhausted and worn out after ca. 1 hour
>(high performance hamsters: 1,5 hours).

Don't forget that the hampsters will produce excess heat in a way that
we cannot make use of it.  I really don't want Yet Another Cooling Fan.

>Ian and I will design the nuclear power station. You don't have so much
>trouble, you get warm water automatically and throw the uranium into

Good idea.  At least you can make your coffee out of this water -- and
if by accident your two coolant systems aren't quite isolated, then
hey! you automatically get that chemotherapy (sp?) that you've been
putting off...

>convential containers. [...]

--Devin Reade		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca