On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Right, but I would consider that to fall under the category of not > being able to hear the difference, albeit for (presumably) psychological > reasons rather than physical reasons. Just two different ways of saying > the same thing, I guess. Not exactly. More like adaptive optics, where they use dynamically corrective lenses to allow telescopes to compensate for the distortions that occur to light refracting through the atmosphere. It's not a matter of not being able to hear the difference, it's a matter of being able to *negate* the differences. Still beermeetin' fodder, though. -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous