From: "Mats Lvfdahl" <mats@astro.su.se>
Subject: Re: Cups
Date: 23 Nov 1999 17:58:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sgaeo5rvph.fsf@royac6.astro.su.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bud Rogers's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:20:59 GMT"
Bud Rogers <budr@sirinet.net> 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?
At the equator, yes. But if Lars stays in Norway, he would see a
slower terminator. Scientists who spend the new years eve at the
south pole can easily walk from time zone to time zone, celabrating
Y2K 24 times. If they can take that much champagne, that is.
--
Mats Löfdahl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-23 16:58 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 ` Mats Lvfdahl [this message]
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 ` Flying terminator (was: Re: Cups) Dan Mills
1999-11-24 17:04 ` 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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