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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (216171)	1/9/2002 2:33:12 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I am still confused. If E = energy, and m = mass, and c = 310^8 m/sec, and E = mc^2, how can E be equivalent to m, without c being approxmately 1? Oh, I see. Equivalent not in mathematical terms, but in nominal terms.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (216171)	1/9/2002 2:40:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Interesting article concerning the notorious Afghan winter that's been approaching and approaching: ...Yesterday, it was 55 and clear in Kandahar and Herat. Ghurian checked in at 55, with 62 predicted for tomorrow. Fifty-seven and sunny in Bost and Laskar, with 64 expected on Thursday. In Kabul, it was 55, though with the windchill factored in it was only -- let me see now -- 54. Just under four months ago, when the doommongers first started alerting us to the "fast approaching" "brutal Afghan winter," it was 70 degrees and I was sitting here in shorts and T-shirt. Today, in my corner of Quebec, the daytime high is 21, the predicted overnight low is 5 degrees, and tomorrow we'll be lucky to hit 14. In Toronto it's 28, New York 38. Overseas? Belfast and Glasgow report 46, London 44, Birmingham and Manchester 42. If those Afghan refugees clogging up the French end of the Channel Tunnel ever make it through to Dover, they face a gruelling battle for survival against the horrors of the brutal British winter.... ...So where did this "brutal Afghan winter" business come from? It came, pre-eminently, from spokespersons from the relief agencies. There are some special-interest groups -- the National Rifle Association, Right To Life -- whose press releases get dismissed by the media as propaganda, and others -- environmental groups, for example -- whose every claim is taken at face value. Into this last happy category fall the "humanitarian lobby." Throughout the rhetorically brutal autumn, they bombarded us: "Predicting even more desperate times for millions of Afghans, international relief groups and federal humanitarian aid officials are scrambling to get food and medical supplies into a country they say is on the verge of famine ... They expect the conditions to deteriorate rapidly as the brutal winter sets in."... nationalpost.com