Dewayne,
I'm not "involved in this subject matter", and I find it very interesting. If
it doesn't interest you, delete it. Just Chll!
Erich Kern


-----Original Message-----
From: Dewayne Hill (n0ssy) 
To: PSN-L Mailing List 
Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Cheap accelerometer



Would all of the parties involved in this subject mater PLEASE communicate
directly with each other. I'm tired of the E-Mails about this subject
being posted to me via the PSN server.

Dewayne Hill


>It's difficult to recommend that you even respond to this guy, because
>it will only encourage him.  However, he ought to look at some of the
>blast monitoring systems which combine geophones and acoustic sensors to
>record effects from explosive blasts.
>
>They aren't free of course, but it seems like obsolete ones show up on
>eBay about once a month and sells for under $100.  Unfortunately, if you
>go down that path, you'll probably end up testifying in court. It would
>be better if you could keep quiet until he goes away.
>
>A friend of mine does blasting and besides recording the data, always
>makes a point of photographing existing cracks in nearby structures
>before doing the blasting.  He was showing some of these photos to a
>plaintiff recently, and she identified the cracks as the ones caused by
>the blast effects.  He didn't make a point of telling her that the
>photos were taken prior to the event, that comes later.
>
>John Hernlund wrote:
>>
>> Ted,
>>    Part of being in our department at ASU is learning the skill of "wacko
>> deflection" by referring crazies to somebody else.  Some jerk called up our
>> department asking about measuring vibrations from his neighbor's stereo and
>> he was deflected twice before ending up asking me (somebody told him I set
up
>> our seismometer display in the building).  I sent him a brief e-mail on
it and
>> thought it would be over, but the fellow keeps coming back for more.  He
said
>> he wants to get some kind of legal action taken by measuring the
acceleration
>> of his walls from his neighbor's "infrasound stereo" that the police can't
>> hear, and hence won't do anything about.  This must be some stereo!  Now he
>> sent me a nasty e-mail deriding me for not contacting him by telephone.
So if
>> anybody can think of a way for me to get rid of him (beyond me deflecting
him
>> upon some other poor soul) by sending any info about cheap accelerometers
>> please let me know...
>>
>>    One day it would be fun to compile a list of all the wackos and what they
>> were about.  We have had people make quite a few interesting scenes...like
>> a fellow proving God's existence through mathematical jibberish and
demending
>> acceptance, people sure that the "face" on Mars was an alien artifact, the
>> "flat earth" people who think that all earth and space scientists are hiding
>> the truth and are obviously involved in strange cults (we told them that new
>> students are inducted by candlelight in the basement where strange and
exotic
>> rites are performed), expanding earth theorists, etc....
>>
>> John Hernlund
>> E-mail: hernlund@.......
>> WWW: http://www.public.asu.edu/~hernlund/
>>
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Dewayne Hill (n0ssy)
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