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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Covid's True Origins
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 09:49:03 -0700
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:17:37 +1000, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
wrote:

>On 22/04/2025 8:02 am, john larkin wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:23:03 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:26:40 -0700, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> Sine waves are boring.
>>>
>>> Well, square waves give rise to lots of harmonics which can be useful.
>>> But what about triangles and sawtooths. Any interesting properies
>>> hidden away in those?
>> 
>> Periodic waveforms are all boring. They just do the same thing, over
>> and over.
>> 
>> A complex pulse can do interesting things. Spin an airplane. Fuse
>> deuterium-tritium. Trigger a megaton boom.
>
>With the right effectors to translate the electrical waveform into the 
>physical displacement of moving mass.
>
>> I wish the world would move on from the slide rule and graph paper
>> days, narrowband s-parameters and Smith charts and load pulls. We have
>> computers now.
>
>But if you don't know enough to understand what the computer could be 
>telling you, the computer is less helpful than it might be.
>
>The narrow road to comprehension is more easily negotiated with the 
>right crutches. What worked in the historical past can still work today.
>There may be an easier route through more easily comprehended computer 
>graphics but I've not seen any evidence to suggest that it has yet been 
>found.

Sloman is boring. He just does the same thing, over and over.