Without paying undue attention to Mr. Johnson's indecipherable message,
I think Mr. Cowan's reply deserves a bit more discussion:
> Consider the angular diameter of the Sun and the Moon as seen from
> the Earth. They are the same within 10% (worst case), and the
> discrepancy can be as small as 0
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Cowan wrote:
> James Johnson scripsit:
>
> > However I have pondered over this situation for some time, and would offer
> > this humble suggestion. As scientist we trained there are no coincidences, that
> > there are facts to substantiate happenings.
>
> Consider the an
James Johnson scripsit:
> However I have pondered over this situation for some time, and would offer
> this humble suggestion. As scientist we trained there are no coincidences, that
> there are facts to substantiate happenings.
Consider the angular diameter of the Sun and the Moon as seen from
To all:
I must apologize for I have been finishing two unique industrial applications, and having made a shift (a move) while doing so.
In looking at all that has occurred since I was following the happenings, I do not have knowledge of what occurred at Torino, or since...
Howeve
Title: RE: [LEAPSECS] mining for data about time
People who make statements such as this understand neither XML, nor the huge range of problems that are being successfully solved with it today.
No encoding system is without fault, and XML does have characteristics that make it undesirable in
Steve Allen wrote on 2003-08-15 05:52 UTC:
> Is anyone looking into providing these data as XML?
What benefits would a monster such as XML add here, apart from adding a
rather baroque syntax to otherwise fairly easy to read and parse flat
table data?
Instead of "as XML", you probably mean "in a w
Steve Allen wrote:
> These schemes are somewhat fragile. It would be interesting to know
> how often a format change in Series 7/Bulletin A has caused them to
> fail.
For this very reason, format changes in Bull. A are extremely rare. When
it has been necessary, the change was announced very far
I have been looking around at the ways that various telescope pointing
systems obtain earth orientation data. A quick search around the web
reveals the following documents that describe semi-automated
techniques that use the information from Bulletin A:
http://sma-www.harvard.edu/private/memos/12
