Simple Simon wrote:
Give it up Sidney - I respect you for your vast engineering knowledge
but these weenies are so uneducated and simple-minded that they
can't honestly be expected to under stand systems involving physical
forces they cannot see, let alone comprehend.

If the boom was supported at the mid point, and a weight hung on the outer
end, would it retain the slight bend, or would it straighten out / bend the
other way?


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