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Author Topic: Head Counting machines. Needed to know more. Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-08-2004 09:18 PM                     That's certainly one! I'm talking about the missile defence system that they showed so many times on TV shooting down missiles over Isreal when it turns out that all but one of them was dummied up. Even the one that did hit didn't "kill".  |  IP: Logged Kamakshipalya Dhananjay Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Bangalore, India Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-11-2004 09:33 AM                     But then, why assume these expenditures are going down the drain. They may all add up to something. Say, 25 years later ! Almost all innovations and inventions take time to reach an adoptable phase. Dont they ? It took more than 35 years before the Wright Brothers' labour of 'passion' was acknowledged commercially.  |  IP: Logged Rob Butler Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Westford, MA, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 03-23-2004 02:02 PM                     I saw an auditorium somewhere that had little switches mounted on all the seats. When the seat is folded down, it releases the switch. All the switches were wired to lights on a seating diagram of the theater, this way you could see how many empty seats there were in the theater and exactly where they are. The springs in the seats were suposidly strong enough to keep the switches engaged even with a few jackets in the seat. I can't imagine that a system simallar to this would be all that hard to build, just a few hundred bucks, and a trip to radioshack.  |  IP: Logged Kamakshipalya Dhananjay Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Bangalore, India Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-24-2004 08:42 AM                     Where is that theatre ? When was this ?  |  IP: Logged

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