[SOC] [OT] From my local ARC

[Ian C. Purdie]

ARC = Amateur Radio Club

I rarely comment in any forum on my local ARC. The monthly bulletin ["Smoke 
Signals"] in the mail is a variable feast. Sometimes brilliant, other times just 
simply good.

This month, apart from usual SK notices, it included:

"NEW ELEMENT DISCOVERED IN CANBERRA"

"This heavy element has one neuron but no electrons. It has 25 assistant 
neurons, 88 deputy neurons and 198 assistant deputy neurons, giving it an atomic 
weight of 312.

These particles are held together by forces known as morons, which are 
surrounded by 14 million particles known as peons.

It has been named Governmentium {Gv}.

Without electrons Gv is inert but it can be detected because it impedes every 
reaction it comes in contact with.

A minute amount of Gv is sufficient to cause a reaction to take more than four 
days when normally it would take less than a second.

Gv has a half life of less than four years. It does not decay but instead 
undergoes a regular re-organisation in which groups of assisstant and deputy 
neurons exchange places.

Gv's mass increases over time because re-organisation causes more and more 
morons to become neurons, thus creating isodopes.

This characteristic of moron promotion led scientists to believe that Gv is 
formed whenever morons reach a situation called Critical Morass.

When catalysed with money, Gv becomes Administratium, an element that radiates 
as much energy as Gv. It then has half as many peons but twice as many morons"

- Attributed to "Canberra Times" 5th April 2006

OTHER ARTICLES

1. "Radiation Belt Remediation" Plan could affect HF Propogation, Study

Very technical but presumably you can check it out at:

http://www.darpa.mil

2. Van Allen Belt discovered dies

Short article on the passing at 91 years of age of James Van Allen

Ah it happens in our little local burgh if you can overcome the SK notices, who 
has cancer etc. etc. Same's with our local Vets org. Go to a meeting happy and 
come away as "Joe BZLK" [I think] with a black cloud over your head.

The price of becoming just that much older.


72/73's

Ian C. Purdie
Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords S33°14', E151°34'
VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
http://www.electronics-tutorials.com/