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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: American War a dystopic novel
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 16:40:11 -0700
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On 9/15/2024 12:15 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:31:03 -0700, Paul S Person
> <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> 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.