In message <20101213190904.ga1...@ucolick.org>, Steve Allen writes: >On Mon 2010-12-13T18:52:18 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp hath writ:
>> Actually, I'm pretty sure time is entirely independent of which >> way you orient the Earth. > >It is barely a decade during which the literature and nomenclature of >the astronomical community has explicitly recognized that truth. It is sort of ironic that the proud disciples of Copernicus have such a hard time letting go of geo-centrism ? And what happened to "boldly go" ? Shouldn't we discuss what we want from our timescale in the future, rather than which 30 year old computers we will need to replace ? Poul-Henning ...Who held the papertape with the ALGOL reduction programs for the PERTH70 catalog in his hands just a few days ago :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list LEAPSECS@leapsecond.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
