Folks,

My wife watches the cable TV program, "The Wire". She was watching a
recorded episode last evening; I think this is last week's show.

At any rate, I believe it was the Medical Examiner who was computing
how long a number of people could survive in a cargo container before
asphyxiating. A physician was giving him data on human oxygen
consumption and he had the dimensions of the container. He was doing
his computations on a slide rule! Sorry, but there wasn't enough of a
close up to determine what kind of 'rule, though it looked to have a
number of scales. The shot was fairly short, but the actor looked as
though he knew what he was doing.

Oh, the context of this was that a freight container with 14 dead
women in it had been found aboard a ship in the Baltimore harbor.

Regards,

Steven Horii