[ale] From DSL to Fiber

[Scott Castaline]

On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 15:57 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> On 08/24/2006 03:38:14 PM, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> > But knots per hour = 1.15 statute miles per hour per hour
> > which would denote acceleration.  Therefore knots per hour
> > itself is not wrong.
> 
> Errr. I'm not so sure about that. There is redundant  
> information in "an aircraft flies". Now if the statement  
> read "an aircraft accelerates..." I might buy the argument,  
> but flying (to me at least, and I suspect in general) would  
> rather imply essentially steady flight with just sufficient  
> various accelerations necessary for stable flight.
> 
> 
> > 
> > What is wrong is it implies you could actually reach the
> > speed of light.  Due to time/mass dilation effects at
> > relativistic velocities (1/4 C or greater) it would be
> > impossible to do even if your poor little plane didn't
> > melt from heat in the atmosphere.  (It would have to be in
> > the atmosphere of course because propellers and [air] jets
> > don't work in a vacuum.)
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> 
> Of course, being of the nature of a thought problem, the  
> physics of flight (such as air resistance) can be ignored.
> 
> 8-)
> 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> > Behalf Of Sean Kilpatrick
> > Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:30 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] From DSL to Fiber
> > 
> > On Thursday 24 August 2006 13:36, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> > | Precision in speaking and writing is essential for those
> > who are
> > | learning, and a great timesaver for everyone.
> > |
> > | Question:  If an airplane flies at 200 knots/hr how long
> > will it take
> > | to reach the speed of light?
> > |
> > 
> > Hmmmmm
> > 
> > Knots = nautical miles (which equal 1.15 statute miles)
> > per hour. I'm
> > not certain what "knots per hour" would mean.  And I'm all
> > for
> > precision in speaking and writing. <grin>
> > 
> > Sean,
> > who in another life was a newspaper editor.
> > 
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Scott Castaline aka Bad2theBone

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