From: Jeff Senn <senn@maya.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Flying terminator (was: Re: Cups)
Date: 23 Nov 1999 15:12:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wk1z9hklvd.fsf_-_@SNIPE.maya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Felix Hagemann's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:32:58 +0100"
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:
(1666.67 + (km_of_altitude_above_sea_level/12)) * cos(abs(lat)) KPH
...assuming no wind :-)
(Boy, I haven't had a discussion quite this pointless on a list for
quite awhile; I must be getting old...)
--
-Jas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-11-23 20:12 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 ` Jeff Senn [this message]
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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