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From: moscom!de@cs.rochester.edu (Dave Esan)
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Subject: Temperature (was Re: Camouflage)
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Date: 18 Jul 90 04:09:43 GMT
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From: moscom!de@cs.rochester.edu (Dave Esan)

In article <1990Jul12.025653.18992@cbnews.att.com> bxr307@csc.anu.oz writes:
>more readily, and when operating as we do in temperatures up to 60 degrees
>Celsius (as it can sometimes reach in high summer in the middle of the 
>continent) 

Interesting article.  But 60 degrees C?  That translates to 140 degrees F
(for those of us in the USA), which exceeds the stated record of 136 degrees
F (or 57.8 degrees C) set on 13 September 1922 in Aziza, Tripolitania.

Sorry to nitpick.

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