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Re: "Peanuts" Cartoon of 12-7-98



Sorry, Jim, you really ought to to read the newspaper; you're missing a
lot.

poj

Jim Green wrote:

Hmmm -- I wonder why someone doesn't post this cartoon so we all will
understand what this thread is talking about.

Jim Green
JMGreen@sisna.com

PS I just don't read a newspaper -- there is too much violence there.

At 09:42 PM 12/23/98 -0500, you wrote:
|Clarence wrote:
|> . . .
|>I contend that the car side MIRRORS have it backwards, too.
|> . . .
|
|Although the observed virtual image in the convex rear view mirror is
|closer to the mirror than is the original object, because of the
|de-magnification (magnification < 1) it is easily interpreted (ie.
|APPEARS) to be farther away.
|
|Bob Sciamanda
|Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (ret)
|trebor@velocity.net
|http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
|

Jim Green
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