From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27184 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Mills Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Flying terminator (was: Re: Cups) Date: 23 Nov 1999 17:52:12 -0500 Organization: Duke University Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ogckkehv.fsf@majikthise.adsl.duke.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164256 23283 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:37:36 +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 RAA18573 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:56:40 -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 QAB17339; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:56:13 -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 16:53:53 -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 QAA03967 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:53:02 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from majikthise.adsl.duke.edu (majikthise.adsl.duke.edu [152.16.65.180]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18536 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:52:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from thunder by majikthise.adsl.duke.edu with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11qOnE-00040Y-00 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:52:12 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: "/6m>=uJ8[yh+S{nuW'%UG"H-:QZ$'XRk^sOJ/XE{d/7^|mGK<-"*e>]JDh/b [aqj)MSsV`X1*pA~Uk8C:el[*2TT]O/eVz!(BQ8fp9aZ&RM=Ym&8@.dGBW}KDT]MtT"< e(`rn*-w$3tF&:%]KHf"{~`X*i]=gqAi,ScRRkbv&U;7Aw4WvC X-Home-Page: http://erebus.cs.duke.edu/~thunder/ In-Reply-To: Jeff Senn's message of "23 Nov 1999 15:12:54 -0500" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) XEmacs/20.4 (Emerald) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27184 Jeff Senn writes: > Felix Hagemann writes: > > > Wes Hardaker 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 -- Dan Mills, Duke Class of 2000 -o) email: dm(at)cs(dot)duke(dot)edu /\\ -----------------------------------\ _\_v Damn Sill.. Sand Mill? All Minds! |_____