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From: Selengut, Jeremy (selengut_at_tigr.org)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 10:57:53 PST


*RULE START*

For purposes of the celebration, FRC balloons are considered to be
fireworks, since they are hydrogen-filled and explode whenever a subsequent
rule uses the word printed on their side.  They may also be destroyed by a
collision with another firework - an event which destroys the impactor as
well.  The glow from such explosions are visible for one second following
the end of the rule in which the event took place.  Such events never take
place outside the one second span of a valid rule.

Clearly, then, fireworks may be disrupted and so fail to endure as long as
claimed by the rule which launched it.  Statements of the duration of a
firework, being contained within a rule of finite duration, to the extent
that they extend beyond the span of the rule, may be imprecise.  In fact,
they are only true when none of the precisely 200 characters which fully
define all fireworks are affected by the outside environment.

For instance, the beige bargain basement firework launched by Rich was
supposed to expire at the end of this rule, but the black explosions from
Alan's firework dimmed it somewhat and caused it to burn one second longer
than predicted.

*RULE END*

-Jeremy

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Rule Date: 2003-01-20 18:58:51 GMT


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