From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/27172 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mats Lvfdahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Cups Date: 23 Nov 1999 17:58:34 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87aeo5xjuv.fsf@twocups.sirinet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.95) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164246 23229 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:37:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:37:26 +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 MAA15129 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:07:34 -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 LAB16030; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:07:10 -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 11:07:18 -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 LAA00421 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:07:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from atlas.astro.su.se (atlas.astro.su.se [130.237.166.95]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15115 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 12:06:16 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from royac6.astro.su.se (royac6 [130.237.166.76]) by atlas.astro.su.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA25156 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:06:12 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by royac6.astro.su.se (5.65v4.0/1.1.19.2/19jan99-1051) id AA29682; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:58:34 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Mats In-Reply-To: Bud Rogers's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 16:20:59 GMT" Original-Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by sclp3.sclp.com id MAA15129 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27172 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:27172 Bud Rogers 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