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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and
to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible
and with liberty and justice for all.

Sept. 27 is Louis' birthday.

1 bushel of soy beans = 60 lbs
1 bushel of corn = 56 lbs
1 metric ton of wheat = 37 bushels

to produce a barrel of oil from shale requires about 4.25 barrels of water,
(derived from NYT 5 Mar 74 story asserting that to produce 100,000 barrels
per year would require 20,000 acre feet per year)

Gosper algorithm for pi
c←5;b←8;r←1;
loop: c←4096c+(42r+5)b; b ← 8b ((2r+1)/(r+1))↑3; r ← r+1;
The approximation is 2↑(12r-8)/c.
Each trip around the loop gives 6r-1 bits.

Energy content of fuels
   fuel		Kjoule/g	Kjoule/cc
Hydrogen	124.7		8.7
Methanol	 20.1		15.9
Gasoline	 44.3		30.9
Hydride	VH3	  4.7		28.4
Coal C28H42	 32.2		41.8
Wood C.32H.40O.22 17.5		14.2
H2 gas		124.7		  .0010
methane gas	 61.1		  .0044

Cost of fuels
    fuel	source		cost/10**6 Kjoule
Gasoline	crude oil		1.00
Methanol	nat. gas		1.49
		coal			1.40
		lignite			1.18
methane		wellhead		 .14-.37
		LNG imported		 .76-.95
		coal			 .76-.95
hydrogen gas	nat. gas		 .92
		coal			1.25
liquid hydrog.				2.37
	Gasoline at $0.118/gal. nat gas at $0.40 per 1000 cu ft.
coal at $7/ton or $0.25/million Kjoule. Lignite at $2/ton or
$0.25/million Kjoule.  Science 28 Dec 1973 - T.B. Reed and R. M. Lerner
SOME RANDOM USEFUL FACTS
40,000 miles interstate highway, 100,000 county and state,
3,000,000 surfaced

11x10↑9 cost per yr from accidents.
If everyone had $4K per yr, then 19% increase in cars.
Robert Hemmes, Urban Mass Transportation, Office of Research

Godel lemma from Montague - Syntactical treatments of modality with
corollaries on reflexion principles and finite axiomatizability.
lemma 1. If T is a theory in which all one-place recursive functions
of natural numbers are functionally numerable, α if a formula of T
whose only free variable is u, and E is a one-place recursive function
of expressions, then there is a sentence β of T such that
{It is provable in T} β ≡ α(numeral-form(g.n(E(β)))).

Q. What is Life? - A. 2 or 3 to survive, 3 to be born.

BATCH 0500 PUB MENTAL <cr> while logged in as f75,jmc

"General John Cocke of Bremo, Virginia, a well-to-do planter of
old family, who dominated the Board of Visitors of the University
of Virginia for thirty-three years, led the demand for nation-wide
prohibition, and was elected president of the American Temperance
Union in 1836." Boorstin - The Americans - the National Experience, p. 214.

World's water 333x10↑6 cubic miles = 1.388x10↑9 cubic km
		97% in oceans
		 2% in ice
		  .65% not in oceans or ice
		  of remainder more than half more than half mile deep
		10↑6 cubic miles accessible ground water
		.01% = 33,000 cubic miles in lakes and rivers
		.001% in atmosphere

Charles Ferguson (ass't Don Sherman) has Webster's Collegiate in
computer form.

DR <file>/DA/REV starts a DIRED with files in reverse chronological order.

Concha y Toro Gran Vino Cabernet Sauvignon is better than Almaden Cabernet
Sauvignon.

1960-1975 public school spending up 320% per student

teacher salaries up 134%

teachers per student off 14%

teacher salaries account for 18% less of expenditure per student than
15 years ago.  Only 45% go to teachers.

one in 5 employed persons is on a government payroll

Institute for Contemporary Studies, San Francisco
A. Lawrence Chickering, H. Monroe Brown
$1200 for a 5000-7000 word article

Hazards to life from Bernard Cohen, L.A. Times June 4, 1978

Risk					days of life expectancy lost

Riding in cars (10,000 miles/yr)			 200
Not using seat belts					  50
Driving small cars					  50
Smoking one pack/day					2200
Overeating by 200 calories/day				 400
Being one pound overweight				  30
One diet drink/day					   2.5
Fire							  30
Drowning						  40
Being poisoned						  20
Choking on food						  12
Being asphyxiated					   7
Struck by falling object				   6
Electrocution						   6
Lightning						   6
Being bitten by an animal or insect			   0.3
Being murdered						  90
Consuming nuclear electricity (if it were all nuclear)	   0.05
Consuming electricity from coal				  15
Air pollution (all sources)				  25
Being male rather than female				2700
Remaining unmarried					1800
Working as a coal miner					1500

See also "A Catalog of Risks" filed under Cohen.

A standard brick weighs 5.4 pounds - by experiment.

cos(2π/17) = (-1+sqrt(17)+sqrt(34-2sqrt(17)))/16+
sqrt(68+12sqrt(17)-16sqrt(34+2sqrt(17))-2(1-sqrt(17))sqrt(34-2sqrt(17)))/16

1880 wheat crop 420,000,000 bushels
1870 wheat crop 287,000,000
1860		150,000,000 est.

Mr. S and Mr. P.
David J. Sprows in Mathematics Magazine, March 1976(vol. 49, No. 2, p. 96)
solution in Nov. 1977 (vol. 50, no. 5 p. 268)
Improved version in Martin Gardner 1980 June, S: I see no way you can
determine my sum. P(after a delay): That didn't help me. I still don't
know the sum. S(after delay): Now I know the product.  Assuming
Goldbach, the numbers must be 5 and 6.
- due to Barry Wolk, University of Manitoba

Jim Tice of Wichita Kansas is a professional finder.

Ratio of what a day's wage will buy in 1970 vs. 1900 from Harvey Brooks
copper 8, iron 6, aluminum 32, crude oil 10
early 70's vs. 1945
residential electricity 6, petroleum 10

C. Marchetti, On 10↑12: A Check on Earth Carrying Capacity for Man,
Research Report RR-78-7, May 1978, International Institute for 
Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

"That the dead are seen no more," said Imlac, "I will not undertake
to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all
ages, and of all nations.  There is no people, rude or learned,
among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed.
...
No disease of the imagination," answered Imlac, "is so difficult
to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt."
- from Samuel Johnson's Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

1 kiloton = 4.18 x 10↑19 ergs

marathon record, Derek Clayton 1969, 2:08:33.6 = 4:54/mile

"Report to the American Physical Society by the study group
on nuclear fuel cycles and waste management"
in %2Reviews of Modern Physics%1, Vol. 50, No. 1, Part II, January 1978

Dr. Anthony Sattilaro, president Methodist Hospital, Baltimore or
Philadelphia claimed to have been cured of carcinoma by macrobiotic diet.
Isaac Rehert, Baltimor Sun-Times story Jan. 4, 1981.  Possibly a
macrobiotic diet lacks essential nutrients that are even more essential
for cancers.  May 1978 diagnosis, June operations, Aug. macrobiotic
starts, no pain after 2 weeks, June 1979 gave up estrogens, Sept. 1979 no
trace of cancer.  Not clear when story was written.  Actually, the
macrobiotic diet, (whole grains, fish, seaweed) might have ingredients
that prevent the uptake of nutrients essential to growing children and
cancers.  Dr. John Giacobbo, vp hospital, "supportive skeptic"