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Sure, I found this blog post that describes it pretty well:

http://somethingsurprising.blogspot.com/2011/11/feynmans-sha...

But basically, it was something that was posted recently on HN, about how Richard Feynman (famous physicist) happened upon a mechanism designed in WWII to avoid mines being detected by trip wires between boats, by allowing the trip-wire to pass through the shaft-passer



Wow - that's actually really cool.




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