Re: [Phys-l] innumeracy (semantic quibble)

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

I thought the point was pollution -- Likely much less when I saw it  
in Hungary and Bratislava because of the "underdevelopment" during  
their socialist regimes, ca. 1989, and even less during the Hapsburgs.

bc

p.s. the NATO bombing of the oil works and chem. factories along the  
Danube very seriously polluted it.



On 2008, Feb 29, , at 17:12, John Clement wrote:

> In Budapest it looked blue, and is blue in the pictures we took, but I
> understand it is brown in Vienna.  Ahhh, romance makes everything look
> better.  I did not look down on it, but at an angle.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > |Under the Hapsburgs the papers could print any
> > | scandal they wished except for anything related to the
> > | monarchy.  The populace was lulled into coplacency by romatic
> > | balls and entertainments.  We have sports they had Viennese
> > | balls.
> >
> > :-))
> >
> > Just how blue is the Danube (Donau)?
> >
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