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From: Phillip Jones on 15 Jul 2010 20:38 Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2010-07-15, Thomas R. Kettler<tkettler(a)blownfuse.net> wrote: >> In article<C864C0AA.60F95%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, >> Nick Naym<nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >>>> You're wrong. The 10 minute difference was due to relativistic effects >>>> since everyone knows that moving clocks run slow. >>> >>> You _are_ kidding, aren't you? >> >> Of course. The relativistic effects do exist but are two small to be >> observable for speeds humans have ever experience. Even for a speed of >> 0.8 * speed of light, clocks would just run 40% slower. > > I'm sure I read about some physics professor who claimed in court > that because he was travelling towards the traffic lights, the red > light appeared green to him. > > Supposedly, the Judge decided to deny this defence when informed that > in order for it to be true, the professor would have to have been > travelling towards the traffic lights at over 100,000,000 mph. Did they consider color Blindness. My brother is color blind with green looking Brown. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjones1(a)kimbanet.com
From: Jon Ribbens on 15 Jul 2010 21:46 On 2010-07-16, Phillip Jones <pjones1(a)kimbanet.com> wrote: > Jon Ribbens wrote: >> I'm sure I read about some physics professor who claimed in court >> that because he was travelling towards the traffic lights, the red >> light appeared green to him. >> >> Supposedly, the Judge decided to deny this defence when informed that >> in order for it to be true, the professor would have to have been >> travelling towards the traffic lights at over 100,000,000 mph. > > Did they consider color Blindness. My brother is color blind with green > looking Brown. That would be a rather different matter ;-) I guess the courts must have long ago decided what they think about colour blind people and traffic lights, given that colour blindness is very common.
From: Jolly Roger on 15 Jul 2010 21:52 In article <1jlopke.1ytj4lc1mzx0ckN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > Fred Moore <fmoore(a)gcfn.org> wrote: > > > Sounds like another one of those NASA units screw ups. The phone system > > was using English seconds while the launch countdown was using metric > > seconds. Now if you guys had just standardized on UTC seconds, there > > wouldn't have been any problem. That's what you get for using the lowest > > bidder. > > Are you sure it has nothing to do with using hex zeroes instead of > binary zeroes? You mean ASCII zeros, Mike. Get it right, please. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Nick Naym on 15 Jul 2010 22:20 In article tom_stiller-2B4706.15141115072010(a)news.individual.net, Tom Stiller at tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com wrote on 7/15/10 3:14 PM: > In article <C864C6C3.60F9F%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, > Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> In article tkettler-6421AD.13533115072010(a)news.eternal-september.org, Thomas >> R. Kettler at tkettler(a)blownfuse.net wrote on 7/15/10 1:53 PM: >> >>> In article <C864C0AA.60F95%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, >>> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> In article tkettler-B1F0F7.13331115072010(a)news.eternal-september.org, >>>> Thomas >>>> R. Kettler at tkettler(a)blownfuse.net wrote on 7/15/10 1:33 PM: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> >>>>> You're wrong. The 10 minute difference was due to relativistic effects >>>>> since everyone knows that moving clocks run slow. >>>> >>>> You _are_ kidding, aren't you? >>> >>> Of course. The relativistic effects do exist but are two small to be >>> observable for speeds humans have ever experience. Even for a speed of >>> 0.8 * speed of light, clocks would just run 40% slower. >> >> You remember how to calculate time dilation!...I see your college tuition >> wasn't wasted on you. ;) > > But he had trouble with Homonyms 101. You noticed that two, eh Tom? -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3)
From: Nick Naym on 15 Jul 2010 22:29
In article tph-F29D07.14080215072010(a)localhost, Tom Harrington at tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net wrote on 7/15/10 4:08 PM: > In article <C864C638.60F9F%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, > Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > >> In article tph-F00F20.11511815072010(a)localhost, Tom Harrington at >> tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net wrote on 7/15/10 1:51 PM: >> >>> In article <C864C0AA.60F95%nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid>, >>> Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote: >>> >>>> In article tkettler-B1F0F7.13331115072010(a)news.eternal-september.org, >>>> Thomas >>>> R. Kettler at tkettler(a)blownfuse.net wrote on 7/15/10 1:33 PM: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> ... >>>> >>>>> >>>>> You're wrong. The 10 minute difference was due to relativistic effects >>>>> since everyone knows that moving clocks run slow. >>>> >>>> You _are_ kidding, aren't you? >>> >>> Man, once upon a time people would just assume such an over the top >>> comment on Usenet was a joke. >> >> "Once upon a time," yes. But based on what some folks have posted here, ya >> never know. > > I get that. I wasn't aiming that at you, just observing how things have > changed. I didn't think you were aiming it towards me, Tom...I (possibly presumptuously) assumed that you were just making an astute observation about the sad State of the Usenet. My comment was simply intended to echo your sentiment. -- iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.3) |