Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU!mcs.kent.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: TCP/IP software for EXOS 205T (Excelan) card (fwd) Message-ID: <2250.275a6a68@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 3 Dec 90 20:08:24 GMT References: <9012012051.AA25053@wubios.wustl.edu> Lines: 27 In article <9012012051.AA25053@wubios.wustl.edu>, david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU ("David J. Camp") writes: > In Reply to this Note From: >>manoj@novell.COM (manoj goel) writes: >> >>>The earth has made over 1000 orbits of the sun since Jun 1987.. and there have >>>been several new releases since 3.2.5 >> >>Man! And I thought it was still the 20th century! Where did the time go? > > Let me see if I got this right. Since there were over 1000 days since > June 1987, he must be referring to the cosmic activity that occurs in > one day. That means that earth is orbiting the Sun once per day. > > This is an astounding discovery! I propose that we start an > international effort immediately to rewrite all the ill-founded > textbooks that say the earth orbits the sun only once per year! > > Furthermore, since the earth rotates about its access 365.2425 times ^^^^^^ > as often as it revolves around the Sun, that means that the earth is > spinning at a rate of 15 times per hour! Sometimes I feel like I am spinning about my keyboard, too, but this does seem out of proportion to the provocation. dan herrick herrickd@astro.pc.ab.com