); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY At 03:21 PM 10/31/2007, you wrote: >); SAEximRunCond expanded to false >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY > >My apologies - I have been misinformed! > >Rob
But it's a good story anyway Rob! John >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Poul-Henning Kamp >Sent: 31 October 2007 19:10 >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Danish Question > >); SAEximRunCond expanded to false >Errors-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RETRY > >In message ><!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAOYAZyOzV8ERq+LmT45ypI7CgAAAEAAAAMh4axYd2AtA >[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rob Kimberley" writes: > > >The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the >University > >of Copenhagen: > > > > > >"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer." > > > >[urban legend] > > > >The student was Nils Bohr, the first Dane to win the Nobel prize for > >Physics. > >No, it most certainly was not Niels Bohr, and I seriously doubt it >was anybody, as this particular urban legend was already old when >I studied physics... > >Poul-Henning > >-- >Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to >https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. > > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
