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To: Windsock who wrote (130363)	1/3/2001 11:10:49 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571821

The coffee maker was speced to survive up to 40 g's in the event of a crash. Military sturdiness and all that. The trouble was that people died well before that level of g's so they probably did not need the coffe maker after they were dead. In addition, I understand that the coffee it made was capable of eating through steel. ted

To: Windsock who wrote (130363)	1/4/2001 12:22:03 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1571821

The coffee maker was speced to survive up to 40 g's in the event of a crash. Military contracts often suffer from specifications that are too high or difficult to meet cheaply. They also suffer from the normal government contract problem of being overly specific. If you had a waste paper basket on a navy ship it might be speced not just to be a general size and shape, but with exact thickness, width, height and depth at every point down to the milimeter. Its possible color and material composition might be speced out to a similar detail. The paper to hold the specs for a 65 ton tank will weigh more then the tank. God only knows how much paperwork is needed to create a carrier battle group with all the ships planes and support equipment. I would imagine that it would require cutting down a forest. Tim