At 09:09 PM 12/29/02 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:04:18PM -0600, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > I was thinking about _standing_ essentially still on the thing for half an > hour or more.I know, that's what you wrote before. But the real limiting factor is likely to be the battery.
Even when it is SRO on the bus or train, you can shuffle your feet a little. Can you do that on IT?
> Another thought: the last February I lived in Provo, every morning > for a week at 8am when I went into work the temperature was -13�F. > I didn't even try to start my car, but took the bus (had to walk a > couple of blocks at each end of the ride). Would I really have wanted > to roll down the street with the wind in my face? Not to mention the > bumpy ice surface covering the sidewalks where snow had been shoveled > into piles or walked on, then re-frozen rock-hard during the night . . > . If it is on a hill, at least half of the trip would be easy (skis, sled, etc.)
Nope. In this case, going right down University Avenue. Quite straight and level. And only a narrow, irregular path through the ice where people have tracked through the snow while it was still soft and unpacked.
--Ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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