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On Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:18:00AM -0600, Bud Rogers wrote:
> Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> 
> Hmm, (desperately tries to remember high school geography lessons),
> circumference of the earth is about 25,000 mi. or 40,000 km.  Terminator
> speed would be a bit more than 1,000 mph or a bit less that 1,700 kph.
> Sound reasonable?


One problem... Since Eisensteins theory of slothitivity holds that the
speed of light is really 962.785 mph,  then  "Terminator" would be a
baby after only two revolutions.