On 05/07/2006, at 2:55 AM, Robert Seeberger wrote:
There is plenty of draught in a high-rise with smashed windows.
Yet there was very little wind that day. You've seen the plumes of
smoke in the picture.
There was a light breeze, but that's not what I said. I said there's
plenty of
On 05/07/2006, at 6:24 AM, David Hobby wrote:
So it sounds like we all agree on the broad outline.
If you have a tribe of N people and one invader, then
the invader's genes would start with a frequency of
1/N. Barring selection, the frequency would stay at
about that level. Over generations,
David Hobby wrote:
I'm with the Fool on this one. There are too many semi-isolated
groups.
Yes - and the key word here is *** semi ***
The Americas were already isolated enough, I bet, so that
there are a few completely full-blooded Indians around.
It depends on how you define a
But hang on, 110 stories, 0.9 seconds per story? isn't that at
least 99 seconds for the whole thing? And yet the total time is
more like 10 seconds isnt it?
It takes approximately 10 seconds for an object not resisted by
anything causing friction to fall 110 stories.
In Emacs Lisp,
The Fool wrote:
1st generation children would have about 23 chromosomes from lone
invader-parent.
We are not talking about genetics, we are talking about
genealogy.
An Actual Inverse Square-Law as opposed to Alberto's Sqaure-Law.
The Law is this: suppose a non-racist, non-classist
On 5 Jul 2006, at 12:13PM, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
I'm with the Fool on this one. There are too many semi-isolated
groups.
Yes - and the key word here is *** semi ***
The Americas were already isolated enough, I bet, so that
there are a few completely full-blooded
A quick note,
My once-upon-a-time almost sister in-law works at Christies auction
house and gets to fondle many and assorted wonders from the Known
Universe - she passes this announcement along. Paramount is
liquidating memorabilia {matter transferring?} items from it's 40 year
archives.
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semi regular - I lurk a lot and come out in bursts when things I
know about (very few actually) or I care about are discussed.
I am 60 years old (how did that happen). I have two children 22 and
16. My dad died last Friday of Alzheimer's Disease.He had a long
decline
As Steve said,
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of
