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Did I Get Screwed By an Incompetent Roofer? Need Advice mg 06-03-2007
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Posted by mm on June 3, 2007, 10:56 pm
wrote:

>
>Having the dish within arm's length helps with snow removal. You can also
>more easily move it if tree growth interferes.

Don't these signals go through trees?

Rabbit ears work, and I thought the satellite frequencies were higher
than UHF.

Posted by krw on June 3, 2007, 11:23 pm
@bigfoot.com says...
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Having the dish within arm's length helps with snow removal. You can also
> >more easily move it if tree growth interferes.
>
> Don't these signals go through trees?

No.

> Rabbit ears work, and I thought the satellite frequencies were higher
> than UHF.

They are, but consider that visible light is much* higher yet. It
gets scattered pretty well by trees.

--
Keith

Posted by mm on June 4, 2007, 12:31 am

>@bigfoot.com says...
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >Having the dish within arm's length helps with snow removal. You can also
>> >more easily move it if tree growth interferes.
>>
>> Don't these signals go through trees?
>
>No.
>
>> Rabbit ears work, and I thought the satellite frequencies were higher
>> than UHF.
>
>They are, but consider that visible light is much* higher yet. It
>gets scattered pretty well by trees.

OK. Good point. I guess his neighbor should put in transparent trees.

Posted by Tim Smith on June 4, 2007, 1:12 am
> >> Rabbit ears work, and I thought the satellite frequencies were higher
> >> than UHF.
> >
> >They are, but consider that visible light is much* higher yet. It
> >gets scattered pretty well by trees.
>
> OK. Good point. I guess his neighbor should put in transparent trees.

This reminds me of a conversation I sat in on once. Some people were
wondering what to do with an old junk PDP-8 computer.

Person #1: We could throw it into the pond.

Person #2: I wonder if it would float?

...silence for a moment, as people think about that...

Someone: Well, it's smaller than a Volkswagen, and those float.

Everyone: Ooh...good point!

...silence for a while....

Someone Else: A rock is smaller than a Volkswagen.

What's scary about that conversation was it took place at Caltech, among
people who went on to be chip designers, or build systems used by the
NSA, or design air bag trigger sensors for the auto industry, and things
like that.

(To be fair, some of that conversation was influenced by alcohol and/or
marijuana and/or a very hot, humid, Pasadena summer evening making
everyone loopy).

--
--Tim Smith

Posted by Una on June 4, 2007, 10:23 am
>This reminds me of a conversation I sat in on once. Some people were
>wondering what to do with an old junk PDP-8 computer.
>
> Person #1: We could throw it into the pond.
>
> Person #2: I wonder if it would float?
>
> ...silence for a moment, as people think about that...
>
> Someone: Well, it's smaller than a Volkswagen, and those float.
>
> Everyone: Ooh...good point!
>
> ...silence for a while....
>
> Someone Else: A rock is smaller than a Volkswagen.
>
>What's scary about that conversation was it took place at Caltech

Sorry to have to tell you this so many years later, but those people
may have been sharing a common cultural reference: Monty Python and
the Holy Grail. This conversation echoes the very funny witch scene.

        Una


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