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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
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Subject: Re: Network Temperature Protocol
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Date: 30 Jul 90 12:42:10 GMT
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	If sucessfully implemented, such a protocol would also contribute 
	towards reducing Global Warming.
Wonder if it would help reducing temperature in more
exotic places too, like those mentioned below:

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   Some consolation
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   I wish to clear up the old question: "Which is hotter, heaven or hell?"

   Verse 26 of Chapter 30 of Isaiah defines the energy radiated heavenward
   by the sun and the moon in terms of the amount received by the earth:
   "Moreover the light from the moon shall be sevenfold, as the light from
   seven days". Thus, heaven receives from the moon as much energy as the
   earth does from the sun. If we add to that 49 times ("seven times seven")
   the earth's solar radiation falling on heaven, we have a total of 50 times
   the energy we receive from the sun. Using a known absolute temperature
   of the earth and the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth-power law, we arrive at the
   determined temperature of heaven: a less than paradisiacal 525 degrC.

   And the temperature of hell?

   Revelation 21:8 says: "The fearful shall have part in the lake which burns
   of fire and brimstone". Since brimstone (sulfur) has a boiling point of
   445 degrC, hell must be several degrees cooler. If it were not, it would
   be a vapor, not a lake.

   Therefore, heaven is hotter than hell by at least 80 degrC.
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(Actually this story is a couple of years old already;
can't remember where I ever got it from).

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)