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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:24:45 +0100
From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@kayjay.nl>
To: Dan MacMillan <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.