From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 04:17:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F45116A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:17:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.itga.com.au (ns1.itga.com.au [202.53.40.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE22743D4C for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:17:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from melmail.itga.com.au (lenford.itga.com.au [10.132.2.150]) by ns1.itga.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iAM4HIYZ046923; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:17:18 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from [10.132.2.163] (hellcat.itga.com.au [10.132.2.163]) by melmail.itga.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B323944C79; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:17:18 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <41A1684E.1020302@itga.com.au> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:17:18 +1100 From: Gregory Bond User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041027) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rob@pythonemproject.com References: <419A7FC3.30900@optusnet.com.au> <20041116172445.GA14385@kayjay.xs4all.nl> <419A6ED9.9030301@pythonemproject.com> In-Reply-To: <419A6ED9.9030301@pythonemproject.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What OS are you? fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:17:23 -0000 Rob wrote: >>> You'd better cite your source and / or reasoning, as ~3*10^8m/s =is= >>> the >>> accepted constant speed of light in vacuum. >> It's deeper than that. The "second" and the "meter" are both defined in terms of wavelengths of light, which (as a consequence) fixes the speed of light _by definition_, at _exactly_ *299 792 458 m s^-1. [Waaaaay OT!] *