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To: RocketMan who wrote (152)	3/24/2000 2:16:00 PM
From: MangoBoy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 227

<< Hesse says birds flying through the beam will not interrupt the data flow, which continues until 85 percent of the beam is occluded. That's BS. So 15% occlusion will not hurt his data flow? >> Read it again. He's claiming that up to 85% occlusion will not interrupt the data flow.

To: RocketMan who wrote (152)	3/24/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 227

I interpreted this stuff about birds in the following way... Its my understanding the the beam is spread. So if a bird flies into the spread beam... it will (generally) not occlude 85% of the spread beam and therefore will not interrupt the data flow. Of course, that assumes small birds relative to the beam width. Its also my guess that the beam starts out narrow and gets wider... so there's a higher chance of 85% occlusion at the narrow end of the beam. I'm not saying that Hesse's statement isn't BS... just that its not obviously (to me) complete BS... it could contain some elements of truth. Hard for me to know. Rob

To: RocketMan who wrote (152)	3/25/2000 8:54:00 AM
From: saukriver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 227

Rocketman, it is sad that you felt the need to slam Dan Hesse by saying that he is spreading BS in your words. Your post # 152 raised the entirely obvious question (possibly solved at post 156) whether transmission of TeraBeam's signal is interrupted by fixed objects. Maybe--just maybe--that question occurred to Mr. Hesse before he left a huge pile of stock options at AWS. My guess is that Mr. Hesse knows quite a bit about TeraBeam's technology and, unlike some, thinks about what he says before he opens his mouth. Next time, spare us the ad hominem attack. saukriver