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| From | docdwarf@panix.com () |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.software.year-2000 |
| Subject | Re: another leap second |
| Date | 2012-01-24 13:28 +0000 |
| Organization | Public Access Networks Corp. |
| Message-ID | <jfmbl7$a6j$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink) |
| References | <63eb3aa7-08b6-4340-a1b1-6901419a6d65@o9g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <gn$XAJOapGHPFw5n@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid> <jfjppq$mhg$1@reader1.panix.com> <c6bbfa5c-9b88-4014-acf9-7abc45a68b81@q7g2000pbg.googlegroups.com> |
In article <c6bbfa5c-9b88-4014-acf9-7abc45a68b81@q7g2000pbg.googlegroups.com>, jbaloun <yonatan62@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Jan 23, 6:11?am, docdw...@panix.com () wrote: >> In article <gn$XAJOapGHPF...@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>, >> Dr J R Stockton ?<reply1...@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >If Humanity >> >were to write down all its terrestrial knowledge, including dates and >> >times, then all drop dead, aliens visiting later and reading what was >> >written could not, from the writing, understand where the time scale was >> >positioned. >> >> Of course, Dr Stockton... every time this has been attempted the result >> has been exactly as you've described... >> >> ... and I am the King of England. ?God Save the Me! > >If Eric Burgess, Carl and Linda Sagan, and Frank Drake designed a >plaque which tried to encapsulate as a subset the essence of all human >knowledge, including dates and times, and launch it on a spacecraft >which is likely to outlast the inevitable nova of Sol and may someday >be found by some form of intelligent life they could not understand >where the time scale was positioned, since the planet would have long >ago been burned to a crisp. > >Indeed sire, it is happening as we speak. Most exquisite. Our plans continue apace. DD
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another leap second jbaloun <yonatan62@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 12:15 -0800
Re: another leap second docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-01-19 02:34 +0000
Re: another leap second PatH <phall@certcoinc.com> - 2012-01-19 05:50 -0800
Re: another leap second Dr J R Stockton <reply1203@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-20 19:54 +0000
Re: another leap second jbaloun <yonatan62@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-20 17:09 -0800
Re: another leap second Dr J R Stockton <reply1203@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-22 19:58 +0000
Re: another leap second docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-01-23 14:11 +0000
Re: another leap second jbaloun <yonatan62@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-23 21:47 -0800
Re: another leap second docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-01-24 13:28 +0000
Re: another leap second Dr J R Stockton <reply1204@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-01-25 19:59 +0000
Re: another leap second docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-01-27 02:42 +0000
Re: another leap second jbaloun <yonatan62@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-26 20:40 -0800
Re: another leap second docdwarf@panix.com () - 2012-01-27 17:31 +0000
Re: another leap second PatH <phall@certcoinc.com> - 2012-01-30 04:54 -0800
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