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Subject:Re: Altimeter for dash?
From:Scott Daniel - Turbovans
Date:Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:58:24 -0700

Totally amazing..
someday, and not too far away ..
things ( that can work in vanagons too ) will be so microscopic in size..
there will be something that can do something..
that occupies no physical space.

zero mass nanobytes ..........for eternal vanagon tail lights or something
like that.
Zmn's for short.

and how is it that people can do rear wheel bearings on vanagons, and have
the job go south in just a few thousand miles lately  ?
and in this case I don't think it's workmanship that is the issue.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Beierl" <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Altimeter for dash?

> At 08:59 PM 8/14/2010 Saturday, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>>May have a tiny vial of mercury.  After all, phones and other
>>electronic devices have all sorts of toxic materials in them without
>>disclosure, why not mercury?  When the mercury horizon is tilted, a
>>circuit could detect that.  See:
>
> This is what the iphone contains:
> http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds/12726.pdf
>
> Digikey will sell them to you or $11 in onesies,  $5.15 if you want 5,000.
>
> Other such phones use similar chips.
>
> These are all a result of learning how to make fairly complicated
> microscopic physical structures in silicon.
>
> Yours,
> David

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