Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:24:45 +0100 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl> To: Dan MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun Message-ID: <20041116172445.GA14385@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABMEJADHAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> References: <419A7FC3.30900@optusnet.com.au> <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABMEJADHAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 07:39:13AM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote: > > -----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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