Miata Mailing List: April 1996, Message #164
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   From: ERICMIATA@aol.com
Subject: Re: Textbooks On Top
   Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 15:22:00 -0500

In a message dated 96-04-02 14:12:17 EST, mgl1710@tam2000.tamu.edu (Mike
Lowe) writes:

>I guess you didn't major in engineering in college.  I guess you never 
>had to lug a Thermodyanmics textbook for a mile or two (A&M is REALLY 
>big).  Those books are so heavy they generate their own gravity wells and 
>stick to Miatas.  Actually, it's the other way around.  Being the smaller 
>mass object, the Miata is attracted to the textbooks.  No April Fool's!  
>This is April 2.  :-)

Hmmm. Wouldn't the Miata be squished between the large gravitational
attraction between the textbook and the Earth? Or are the two somehow rapidly
orbiting around each other as some sort of strange binary planet? Could the
not yet dried soft-top hold up under the wildly fluctuating tidal forces? If
only Steven Hawkings were here to answer these perplexing questions.....

:-)

Eric Evans