8 Sep
2004
8 Sep
'04
12:33 a.m.
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 12:17:40PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:14 -0700, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
You could use it for building a liquid mirror telescope and make some
astronomists rather happy. Google for "liquid mirror telescope".
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
I've got some quicksilver that I liberated
from some evacuated glass tubes
Actually, that reminds me - I saw a chap in the UK trying to get rid of
several kilos of the stuff a short while ago. I can't help thinking that
*something* interesting could be made using it, although I'm not sure
what.