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| From: Shane Nelson <i@CHEETAH.SPOTS.AB.CA>
| To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
| Subject: Re: Too Much Garbage
| Date: donderdag 14 augustus 1997 23:21
|
| On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Bob Fehrenbach wrote:
|
| > I think it is about time to get back to somethng serious on this list.
| >
| >
| >    5*X^2 - 50 * X + 125 = 0     X = 5, 8
| >
| >    How many fingers does a Martian have?
| >
| >
|
| Maybe we could come up with some type of PIC driven spaceship,
| that would allow us to travel through space at such a high
| speed that we would, within our own life time, be able to visit
| all the planets, and find a Martian (or other alien, I suppose)
| and ask him/her/it?
|
| Faster acceleration clearly isn't going to get us there.  Even if we
| got as fast as the speed of light it would take 27 (I believe?) light
| years to get to the nearest galaxy. So we'd only have time to visit
| one, or maybe two galaxies in our lives. We need something faster. We
| need to bend space into the fourth dimension, to decrease the distance
| between here and there. (Like they talked about in flatland.)
|
| If we try hard, I think we can do it. Anyone up for it?



This sounds like your regular
 sunday-afternoon-I-haven't-got-anything-better-to-do
programming job.



Greetings Eric Martens

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