Re: Password Protocols.

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:21:47 -0800 (PST), Jeffrey Walton
<noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Not to mention a lot of other
bright folks, and without all the dredging that goes on at sci.crypt.

Jeff

If there is muck here, there is a very high likelihood that dredging
will occur.

I like the world's longest running lab experiment.

If you take pitch (tar) and strike a lump of it with a hammer, it will
shatter like glass. Then, you simply have many lumps. This is why I
think it is funny that someone thinks they could possibly stop an
approaching asteroid. Back to tar...

Put that same tar lump in a funnel, and it will eventually drip out of
the funnel. Years later...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment

http://www.livescience.com/7102-world-longest-running-experiments.html

Here is a good photo that actually shows how big it is...

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/worlds-longest-lab-experiment-a-lesson-in-persistence-20120119-1q7lu.html

WOW!
Check out the globe at the end of this web page...

And the hammer blow photos of a tar block before and after the hammer
strike!

http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=7555


Dredge, dredge, dredge...
.