From: g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies   
      
   In message <2016071012202977886-mlevinespmfltr@redshift.com>   
     Michael LeVine  wrote:   
   > On 2016-07-10 18:12:59 +0000, webe.trickel@gmail.com said:   
      
   >> On Monday, August 26, 2002 at 8:02:19 PM UTC-5, Improbable wrote:   
   >>> Having just gotten back from a trip to Yellowstone National Park, I've   
   >>> been hearing about everyone's Yellowstone experiences. One in particular   
   >>> sounded especially intriguing. It seems the National Park Service hires   
   >>> college students from around the world to work at hotels, restaurants,   
   >>> etc. during peak summer time. (I know this part is true because I was   
   >>> there.) According to the story, some of these students went out to Old   
   >>> Faithful one day, way off to the side, but still within view of the   
   >>> tourists, with a bicycle wheel and a length of pipe. They pushed the   
   >>> pipe deep in the ground and mounted the bicycle wheel on top of it.   
   >>> Several seconds before the scheduled eruption time, one student called   
   >>> an order to the other one, who started turning the bicycle wheel on top   
   >>> of the pipe very slowly and laboriously, creating the impression that he   
   >>> was opening a large valve. The geyser blew its load right on schedule,   
   >>> and then he cranked the wheel the other way again. The story goes on to   
   >>> say that they were fired for this little incident.   
   >>>   
   >>> I could easily believe that some overbored college kids would do   
   >>> something like this, but the hard part is believing that they got fired.   
   >>> If I had been their boss, I wouldn't have been able to stop laughing   
   >>> long enough to do the paperwork. The only scenario that might lead to   
   >>> this is if they were trespassing on some sort of restricted   
   >>> environmentally sensitive area. Anyone have any input on the voracity of   
   >>> this one?   
   >>>   
   >>> Intersting thought: If a chemical factory dumped into the ground the   
   >>> same mix of toxic chemicals that exists at Yellowstone, they would be   
   >>> accused of committing the environmental atrocity of the century.   
      
   > IIRC there is a video of the incident you described. I seem to recall   
   > seeing it at one time   
   > but cannot seem to readilly locate a copy on the net.   
      
      
      
      
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   between a postulate and a metaphor of human existence. Or a hole in the   
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