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Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun
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Karel J. Bosschaart wrote:

>On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Andrew Sinclair
>>>Sent: November 16, 2004 15:32
>>>To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
>>>Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun
>>>
>>>By the way, speed of light in the other thread is way off. The "accepted 
>>>constant" is bogus. The average speed is actually closer to 2.4 million 
>>>kilometers per second.
>>>      
>>>
>>You'd better cite your source and / or reasoning, as ~3*10^8m/s =is= the
>>accepted constant speed of light in vacuum.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes indeed. Also, the word 'average' makes the statement pretty 
>meaningless without specifying how the averaging is done (different
>materials I think?).
>
>Karel.
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OK, I'll bite on this.  Check www.nist.gov.  They occasionally update 
the fundamental physical constants, but we are talking about incredibly 
small amounts. 

Rob.