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"Vince Morgan" wrote in message
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>>Congrats, Fred. Go to the top of your class if you ever SEE a
>>magnetic field (or an electric one for that matter). All we ever see
>>are electrons & motion: the rest is theory.
> A man was doing an aerial survey from an aircraft at considerable
> altitude.
> His assistant was on the ground with a hand held radio.
> The surveyor calls his assistant Barry, because that was his name, and
> asks.
> "Can you see that wheat field east of the water tower Barry?"
> The country was very flat and featureless, and Barry looked toward the
> tower, which he could just make out and realized it was in a westerly
> direction. Turning about he tried to see the wheat field but couldn't
> make
> it out.
> "Nope can't see it from here" He replied to Bob, because that was his
> name.
> "Of course you can, it's gotta be at least 400 acres of ripe brown wheat
> Barry."
> Barry stood on his toes but couldn't see the field for all he was worth.
> "Nope, sorry Bob, can't see it."
> A little annoyed Bob calls Barry in and says.
> "It's western boundary is about 200 yards east of the tower Barry, try
> again
> will you please."
> Barry finds a small mound that is just a little raised and stepping onto
> it
> he stretches onto his tippy toes and looks hard to the east but still
> can't
> make it out.
> "Nope, sorry, can't see it Bob." says Barry, because that was his name.
> "Where in the hell are you Barry?"
> "About 300 yards east of the tower Bob, but I can't see a bloody thing for
> the friggin grain around me!!"
> Vince
>
A few years ago I was involved in a Hot Air Balloon flight. Unfortunately,
bad weather closed in, our GPS stopped working and we became quite lost. The
chase vehicle couldn't follow us unless we could tell the ground crew where
we were, and we were losing daylight.

We spotted a break in the clouds and descended, hoping to spot a landmark.
Unfortunately, we saw none and were about to ascend again when I spotted a
lone hiker.

"Halloo!" I cried out. "can you tell us where we are?"

The man looked up, scratched his head, squinted and shouted , "You are in a
wicker basket, about 30 meters over my head!"

"Are you a physics professor?" I shouted back.

"Yes," he cried. "How did you know?"

"Well," I replied, "You just provided me with information that was
completely accurate and totally useless!"

Bill