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Re: another leap second

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>

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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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