In a message dated 3/21/99 9:41:56 PM Pacific Standard Time,
jdicus@ourfuture.com writes:
> If an organization were capable of moving more "air" with each "breath"....
> What comes to mind?
1. The capability to move more air may be useless in a vacuum.
2. Air capacity could be an accurate indicator of potential.
3. The collection of muscles, blood, bone and skin that we call a Cheetah
is a complex interactive system (animal) operating inside another complex
system (nature).
4. Intake of air must balance exhaust.
5. Some organizations produce more hot air than others.
6. Breathing is an autonomic reflex with conscious override.
7. A supercharger works on an internal combustion engine but would blow
the back end off a hamster.
-- Lon Badgett lonbadgett@aol.com"As she entered her sixth hour of labor, my wife was not at all thrilled as I kept reminding her how controlled breathing would make things easier. In a moment of pain induced bluntness, she reminded me that strangling her husband might serve the same purpose." Emil Gobersneke, from The Gullible American
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