Simple Simon wrote:

It did not originate with me but I can see the logic of it.

Oh Geez, it is truly amazing what passes for logic in your mind.

Your reaction, on the other hand, is illogical.

It was the reaction of anyone with more than an elementary school
education, a few moments exposure to high school physics, and the world
outside a mental institution.

But then I guess you applied the same logic to your selection of
galvanized pipe to repair your broken boom.

Master mariner, indeed. If you ever left your mooring you would be a
hazard to navigation. As it is you are just a bad joke, a health hazard,
and a marine pollutant.

Rick