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From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Airplanes gain weight
Message-ID: <239@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 21:50:50 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 18 21:50:50 1984
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Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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> I would venture to guess that you could drop every cigarette ever
> smoked in said same 747 into the cargo hold and it still wouldn't
> add 2000 pounds of weight to the aircraft.
> 
> I agree smoking coats interior vehicle surfaces but 2000 pounds of
> added weight is hard to swallow.

(Your choice of the word "swallow" certainly is appropriate!)
Pretend you've been hired by Boeing to paint the inside of a 747.
Think about how much surface area there is in a 747.
Think about how many gallons of paint it would take to cover
that surface area .  Don't forget to do both sides of all
interior surfaces plus the inside surface of the skin.
You can paint as thinly as you like, but paint *everything*, even
the reading lamps.  Think about how much a gallon of paint weighs.
And, oh yes, you have to carry the paint yourself.

I guess you've never painted a house?  Lugging the paint from your
car to the ladder will convince you that 200 pounds/year isn't
unreasonable.

> Smoking is permitted in my car............and plane.

You're really not doing anybody any favors there.  I assume you're
a smoker.  I bet your car stinks, and the plane, too.  Your house
surely smells.  But you wouldn't notice because you're used to it.
Your friends do, I bet, but keep silent.

I do not mean this to sound like a personal attack.  It isn't.
The fact is, people who smoke *smell* as do their offices, homes
and cars.  Too bad they don't know it.
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