From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27170 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Cups Date: 23 Nov 1999 10:18:00 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87aeo5xjuv.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164245 23217 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:37:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:37:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14867 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:21:48 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAB16756; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:18:45 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:18:56 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29353 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:18:46 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from twocups.sirinet.net (postfix@twocups.sirinet.net [207.3.88.229]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA14858 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:18:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by twocups.sirinet.net (Postfix, from userid 0) id C1CC0CB47; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 10:18:00 -0600 (CST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Wes Hardaker's message of "23 Nov 1999 06:51:58 -0800" Original-Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27170 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27170 Wes Hardaker writes: > >>>>> On 23 Nov 1999 08:18:03 +0100, Steinar Bang said: > > Steinar> Will it explode all at once, or will the explosion follow the > Steinar> terminator (aptly named)? > > I think it'll explode independantly in each time zone right? So only > 1/24th of the world will explode first. That's what we think|hope at work. I work for a power company. We plan to have lots of Y2K compliant human beings in strategic locations with their hands on manual controls that night. We're located in the Central US time zone. Consensus is that we will have several hours of examples if there are real problems. Consensus is also that it will be mostly a non-event, at least in North America and Europe. > > Homework: If the terminator is flying westward around the world, how > fast must he be flying to ensure that the explosion is always just > behind him? 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? -- Bud Rogers