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To: slacker711 who wrote (1897)	7/21/2000 1:23:19 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 12231

There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day, In a relative way, And returned home the previous night. from: washingtonpost.com

To: slacker711 who wrote (1897)	7/22/2000 1:02:37 PM
From: qdog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12231

Ah, one of my favorite pub fights with NASA engineer types. Further vindication that we are at the end of our ropes in future advancement, until we put physicist and mathematicians on a space station. Newtonian physic is all about the observation and explanation of nature. Astrophysic is observation of distortion from the confines of natural phenomeon of earth. Until we have a new math we are bound and limited by the distortions of old math. It should be an interesting formula that develops and whether it stands up under old calculus. Einstien is fav of mine and one of top ten greats in that last 2000 years in my mind, but this is yet another experiment that punches a hole in the theory of relativity. Hey how about that Kiwi caddy of Tiger Woods!! What a man. Played for the All Blacks, scratch golfer, races cars.

To: slacker711 who wrote (1897)	7/26/2000 4:51:18 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

Surely nobody really believed that stuff about the speed of light being full-speed. The speed of light has always been unacceptably slow, rendering the universe a solid! No wonder "Hyperdrive" is used in any half-decent spaceship. Without hyperdrive, it literally takes forever to get across the universe, even for light. So it can never be done. Except that it can. To talk of the speed of light seems silly since it means so many kilometres in a particular time. But the time is just another measure of distance = how many times can the earth go round the sun before light gets from the sun to the earth? So it's a self-defining thing. As gravity density increases, so too will the speed of light. Or maybe it goes slower depending on the graviton spin. Anyway, it's all slippery as a hagfish and elusive as a Will o the wisp. Lots of fun though. So now light gets there before it started out? That's tricky. Mqurice

To: slacker711 who wrote (1897)	8/7/2000 1:03:37 AM
From: S100	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Any Idea why the Nokia 6188 is sold out? Seems to be a CDMA phone using the Nokia CDMA chipset. clearnet.com The Samsung SCH-850 phone demo in 3D is interesting. arcx.com has a review of the 6185/6188. Interesting parts are: "These phones operate at 1900 Mhz CDMA, 800 Mhz analog, and 800 Mhz CDMA" and "This is the first CDMA phone I've ever used that did not use the Qualcomm chipset. Yes I know, there are notations about Qualcomm patents on the back of the phone, but I'm fairly certain these do not refer to the chipset. Phones using the Qualcomm chipset must include the Qualcomm logo and the words "Digital by Qualcomm". I therefore got my first sample of how other engineers would choose to handle frame errors."