Re: Wright Brothers Anniversary

2002-12-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 12:23 AM 12/19/02 -0500, William Taylor wrote: In a message dated 12/18/2002 9:42:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe next year they can have the same 99 planes and add the space shuttle as the 100th example of flight evolution... Oh, you mean an orbital

Re: Wright Brothers Anniversary

2002-12-21 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 12/20/2002 9:42:48 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Went to Tucson once. It was closed. --Ronn! :) Ha! I went to Birmingham once. _It_ was closed. Jefferson Davis' birthday. Doug Birmingham in 1977 via Greyhound. It

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 12/20/2002 10:58:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time, one person who quoted another person said: Gollum was great. Gollum puts Yoda to shame. Yoda still has no personality, even when on speed. Gollum has two distinct personalities. Much better than that silly angel/devil

Re: Scouted: Playboy models losing hourglass figures

2002-12-21 Thread Ray Ludenia
Jon Gabriel wrote: Playboy spokesman Bill Farley said: As time has gone on and women have become more athletic, more in the business world and more inclined to put themselves through fitness regimes, their bodies have changed, and we reflect that as well. But I would think that no one with

[LINK] GOOGLE FIGHT!!!

2002-12-21 Thread Adam C. Lipscomb
http://www.googlefight.com/ Brin (245,000 results) versus Tolkien (1,520,000 results) Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Silence. I am watching television. - Spider Jerusalem ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: Scouted: Playboy models losing hourglass figures

2002-12-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Richard Baker Can any of our British Brinnellers explain how many pounds a :stone is? I thought that's the sort of arcane fact that only Americans know. (dictionary.reference.com tells me it's 14lbs, but also says that it varies with the article weighed[!] so that a butcher's stone is 8lbs,

RE: [LINK] GOOGLE FIGHT!!!

2002-12-21 Thread Nick Arnett
But you should have used David Brin, since there are lots of Brins who aren't, such as the founder of Google! And then the results for DB drop by an order of magnitude... -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Vanishing spaces ( was RE: [Listref] ...ratefuelsenvironmentalconcerns)

2002-12-21 Thread Nick Arnett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Deborah Harrell Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Listref] Link: Rising breast cancer ratefuelsenvironmentalconcerns --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [LINK] GOOGLE FIGHT!!!

2002-12-21 Thread The Fool
From: Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.googlefight.com/ Brin (245,000 results) versus Tolkien (1,520,000 results) Love vs Sex Lord of the rings Vs Wheel of time lord of the rings vs star wars love vs hate darth vader vs sauron

Re: Vanishing spaces ( was RE: [Listref]...ratefuelsenvironmentalconcerns)

2002-12-21 Thread The Fool
From: Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Subject: Re: [Listref] Link: Rising breast cancer ratefuelsenvironmentalconcerns --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vanishing spaces ( was RE: [Listref] ...ratefuelsenvironmentalconcerns)

2002-12-21 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: That's a bizarre bug. And it'll break some of my threading stuff. I'll go see if it's a known one. Has anyone seen exactly how to make it happen? Is it the length of the subject? Please, no mailbombings to test! I can set up a dummy list if necessary... All dummies

Re: Space travel Q?

2002-12-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn! Blankenship asked: Do you know of any program already available which does what I think Damon wants here: orbital motion where at least one of the bodies can be a spacecraft under constant thrust? No - and this is a very complex problem. I don't even know how to select the thrust to

Re: Space travel Q?

2002-12-21 Thread Alberto Monteiro
Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Using a Hohmann transfer orbit to go from 100 AU to 2 AU would require such a long time that when the ship arrived, it would be populated by the grandchildren of the original crew. The applicable formula in this case is Newton's version of Kepler's Third Law: P^2

RE: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Horn, John
From: Jim Sharkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] And speaking of LotR, am I the only who finds himself feeling a very strong urge to visit New Zealand after watching the movies? It's amazingly beautiful country, at least the parts Mr. Jackson is showing us. No, you are not the only one. I

RE: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Horn, John
From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * * * * * * Spoiler Space * * * * * * * H that should be enough... * * * I don't like that Gimli has become comic relief. The dwarves are a noble race. There was a little bit of that in the first

RE: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Horn, John
From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * * * * * * Spoiler Space * * * * * * * H that should be enough... * * * I also loved it, pretty much for all the same reasons. My own random obervations: The Gandalf vs. Balrog fight was one

RE: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Marvin Long, Jr.
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Horn, John wrote: The Gandalf vs. Balrog fight was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. When they plunged into the lake below the mountain it was like watching a scene from the war in Heaven from Paraside Lost. (And the music!)

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread The Fool
From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * * * * * * Spoiler Space * * * * * * * H that should be enough... * * * I don't like that Gimli has become comic relief. The dwarves are a

Receivers

2002-12-21 Thread Horn, John
I'm looking to purchase a new receiver. My last purchase of a receiver was in 1978 so I'm a little out of date as to what to look for. Any suggestions? Or any suggestions what features to look for? I'd like to keep the cost under $400-500 if possible. And I'd like something that works fairly

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread The Fool
From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] * * * * * * Spoiler Space * * * * * * * H that should be enough... * * * I also loved it, pretty much for all the same reasons. My own

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Erik Reuter
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:40:06PM -0600, The Fool wrote: I remember it. Recall the scene in FotR in Moria, where they are fleeing down stairs: Nobody tosses a Dwarf, and he jumps across. That was from the movie. I didn't remember it from the book, and I just skimmed that section of the book

Re: Receivers

2002-12-21 Thread just john
I'm looking to purchase a new receiver. My last purchase of a receiver was in 1978 so I'm a little out of date as to what to look for. Any suggestions? Or any suggestions what features to look for? I'd like to keep the cost under $400-500 if possible. And I'd like something that works fairly

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread William T Goodall
on 21/12/02 11:14 pm, Marvin Long, Jr. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me too. (Everybody together: D-V-D, D-V-D, D-V-D) I have just got the extended special edition DVD of I so I can watch it before going to see part II. A whole 30 minutes extra - must be good! [1] [1] I couldn't resist

Re: Space travel Q?

2002-12-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
With any luck, this will teach me NOT to post when I am feeling like something the cat didn't even consider dragging in . . . At 04:28 PM 12/21/02 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Ronn! Blankenship wrote: Using a Hohmann transfer orbit to go from 100 AU to 2 AU would require such a long time

Re: Receivers

2002-12-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 05:39 PM 12/21/02 -0600, Horn, John wrote: I'm looking to purchase a new receiver. My last purchase of a receiver was in 1978 so I'm a little out of date as to what to look for. Any suggestions? Or any suggestions what features to look for? No, but FWIW I have one that is older than

Re: The Two Towers (spoilers)

2002-12-21 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 07:34 PM 12/21/02 -0500, William Taylor wrote: green bologna. purple edged cottage cheese. macaroni that sticks to the roof of your Volvo. Enough spoilers. You've been looking in my refrigerator again, have you? --Ronn! :) I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I