At 21:09 2001-11-18 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: >On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 01:09:18PM -0500, Jud McCranie wrote: >>I should have suggested this yesterday, but let's have a meteor shower to >>celebrate the probable discovery of a new Mersenne prime! > >Big, big disappointment here in Norway -- I was outside for about an hour >during the "maximum", _nothing_ to be seen. No clouds at all, perfectly >clear, but not a single meteor. :-(
Oh, so _that_ was it! I was outside the whole night Sunday to Monday, (standing in line for tickets to The Lord of the Rings,) and I noticed that it was unusually many stars falling... So it had a natural explanation after all! :-) And I got excellent tickets to the first screening, by the way! :-D -- Johan Winge _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
