From: Dan Mills <dm@cs.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Flying terminator (was: Re: Cups)
Date: 23 Nov 1999 17:52:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ogckkehv.fsf@majikthise.adsl.duke.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jeff Senn's message of "23 Nov 1999 15:12:54 -0500"
Jeff Senn <senn@maya.com> writes:
> Felix Hagemann <fx@coop-x.de> writes:
>
> > Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes:
> >
> > > 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?
> >
> > At what altitude does a standard terminator fly? ;-)
>
> Darn it -- always something! I missed altitude:
And what about the starting position? If the terminator starts out
just east of where the first explosion takes place, he can just relax
and check some news (hopefully with pgnus), until the explosions catch
up with him.
-Dan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-23 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-21 18:03 Cups Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-22 17:28 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-23 7:18 ` Cups Steinar Bang
1999-11-23 14:51 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-23 16:18 ` Cups Bud Rogers
1999-11-23 16:45 ` Cups Harry Putnam
1999-11-23 16:58 ` Cups Mats Lvfdahl
1999-11-23 17:42 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-23 18:31 ` Cups Jeff Senn
1999-11-23 21:20 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-24 7:51 ` Cups Steinar Bang
1999-11-24 15:35 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-24 15:42 ` Cups Hrvoje Niksic
1999-11-24 22:08 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-23 18:44 ` Cups Bud Rogers
1999-11-23 17:32 ` Cups Felix Hagemann
1999-11-23 20:12 ` Flying terminator (was: Re: Cups) Jeff Senn
1999-11-23 21:35 ` leafnode - gnus Pieter Wenk
1999-11-24 14:51 ` Pieter Wenk
1999-11-23 22:52 ` Dan Mills [this message]
1999-11-24 17:04 ` Flying terminator (was: Re: Cups) Jeff Senn
1999-11-30 7:49 ` Rob Browning
1999-11-24 19:35 ` Cups Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-24 22:03 ` Cups Wes Hardaker
1999-11-25 0:44 ` Cups William M. Perry
1999-11-25 9:17 ` Cups Kai Großjohann
1999-11-25 12:28 ` Cups Colin Marquardt
1999-11-25 15:33 ` Cups Kai Großjohann
1999-11-25 16:03 ` Cups William M. Perry
1999-11-25 16:30 ` Cups Simon Josefsson
1999-11-25 16:35 ` Cups Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-25 16:44 ` Cups Hrvoje Niksic
1999-11-25 17:38 ` Cups Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-25 19:54 ` Cups Felix Hagemann
1999-11-25 23:41 ` Cups William M. Perry
1999-11-26 4:10 ` Cups Bud Rogers
1999-11-26 17:11 ` Cups Per Abrahamsen
1999-11-26 8:13 ` Cups Daniel Pittman
1999-11-29 21:01 ` Cups Bill White
1999-11-25 17:08 ` Cups Jan Vroonhof
[not found] ` <86wvr6v9sb.fsf@me <byso1ucxdh.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch>
1999-11-25 17:18 ` Cups Gunnar Evermann
1999-11-25 17:52 ` Broken References (was: Cups) Toby Speight
1999-11-25 18:06 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-11-25 20:00 ` Russ Allbery
1999-11-25 20:09 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-11-25 20:23 ` Russ Allbery
1999-11-25 20:43 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-11-25 21:00 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-11-25 18:37 ` Cups Jan Vroonhof
1999-11-25 18:55 ` Cups Jan Vroonhof
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