Well, you could behold the beautiful green color, and it is even bound in linen. A schoolbook in linen! those were the times before the throw-away society. And you know all that stuff anyway, you don't need to be able to read it.---- If it were not for a bit of sense of humor, we all would be headed into the abyss! Marta On Jan 28, 2005, at 9:50, RWhite at neffpackaging.com wrote:
> > > > > Nichts....Ich konnen nicht gelesen! > > Ray White > Neff Packaging Solutions > 1700 Watterson Trail > Louisville, KY 40299 > Tel: 502-491-1820 ext.330 > Fax: 502-491-7701 > www.neffpackaging.com > > > > > Marta Edie > <martaedie at mac.com> To: > macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent by: cc: > owner-macgroup at erdos.math.lou Subject: > Re: MacGroup: High speed access newbie > isville.edu > > > 01/28/2005 09:48 AM > Please respond to macgroup > > > > Oh-Lee and Ray - how can you challenge an almost 80yr old woman with > all that physics on a morning before she had her coffee! - Since I > shall be with the Lord or in that distant land rather sooner than later > I shall submit to the assertion that eternity is like a day or a second > or a blink of an eye , an Augenblick or totally outside the measure of > time, but hope to have a device up there, or perhaps down there, to > keep participating in your email exchanges. You know what? I went down > to the basement and looked up my old German highschool Physics book to > read about the speed of light!. Anybody wants an antique like that ? I > can add the book on Chemistry for good measure. > Marta > On Jan 28, 2005, at 9:06, RWhite at neffpackaging.com wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> In a vacuum, light always travels at a speed of 299,792,458 meters per >> second, no matter how its speed is measured. >> ...Just in case anyone was think that m/s was miles per second! >> >> Ray White >> Neff Packaging Solutions >> 1700 Watterson Trail >> Louisville, KY 40299 >> Tel: 502-491-1820 ext.330 >> Fax: 502-491-7701 >> www.neffpackaging.com >> >> >> >> >> Lee Larson >> <leelarson at mac.com> To: >> macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Sent by: cc: >> owner-macgroup at erdos.math.lou Subject: >> Re: MacGroup: High speed access newbie >> isville.edu >> >> >> 01/28/2005 08:57 AM >> Please respond to macgroup >> >> >> >> On Jan 28, 2005, at 12:19 AM, Nelson Helm wrote: >> >>> I read that persons standing on the sidewalk below hear Big Ben, the >>> bell at the Houses of Parlement, after Australian listeners to the >>> BBC. Signal goes to Australia at speed of light, in less time than >>> to >>> sidewalk at speed of sound. >> >> Being my usual persnickety self, I checked the facts, and you're >> right. >> (Google knows everything!) >> >> Big Ben is 106 m tall, so it takes the sound about 0.3 s to reach the >> ground at 340 m/s. >> >> The mean circumference of the earth is 12,742 km and the speed of >> light >> in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s. As a worst case, Australia is halfway >> around the world, so use 6500 km as the distance from London to >> Australia, giving 0.02 s as the time to get there. >> >> Light is quick, but not quick enough to help satellite broadband. A >> satellite in geostationary orbit is 35,768 km above the equator. It >> takes at least 0.12 s to get a signal there. Since we're talking >> round-trip time, this is about a quarter second to squirt something up >> there and get it back. >> >> I've tried satellite broadband. >> >> It works great for downloading big files because once the file starts >> coming, it comes really fast. >> >> Using a terminal is pretty frustrating because the echo of what you've >> typed takes at least a half second to appear. >> >> Complex Web pages are made up of dozens, or even hundreds of little >> pieces. You can watch in slow motion as your computer requests them >> and >> they arrive. The satellite broadband companies are fighting the >> latency >> by caching commonly requested pages so they can send all the pieces at >> once without waiting for the individual requests. >> >> Email is OK because you just get it all in one shot, so the half >> second >> isn't noticeable. >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> >> >> >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> >> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
