Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dimensional Traveler Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:40:11 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 01:40:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="664647c486f72486c0baf418ae6190ef"; logging-data="2571993"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19THG+h8nA2zsKM/ZTgfYoO" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:KNtz7cLvtF2kibpRiWlLOMRp8f8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2742 On 9/15/2024 12:15 PM, The Horny Goat wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:31:03 -0700, Paul S Person > wrote: > >>> I have to admit that I was disappointed in the tour. When I was a kid I >>> visited the plant on the American side and they let you walk down on the >>> actual floor and see operating equipment... they had one generator torn >>> down and you could see how the brushes were honeycombed to reduce skin >>> effect. (at 60 Hz!) It was very, very cool. Forty years later the >>> American side was totally locked down and the Canadian plant had a tour >>> where you could look through a window and talk to someone who couldn't >>> answer any questions. >> >> "But the kids are much less likely to run into the equipment and get >> hurt." >> >> Just one possible excuse for the change. >> >> "Makes sabotage harder" would be another. >> >> Ah! The 50's! >> > To me the most amazing thing about the Falls are the tunnels under the > Falls on the Canadian side. There's even a hallway (roughly 15' x 15' > in size) where there's only a small standard railing preventing you > from running out into the midst of the Falls (which would obviously be > fatal) and no guards. Almost like they expect people to have common sense and a sense of self-preservation! Well! The joke's on them! -- I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky dirty old man.