Request for important information

1999-11-29 Thread Alexei Pace
Dear sundial enthusiasts Today I wish to ask something non-sundial-related... I saw the very interesting website http://www.indo.com/cgi-bin/dist which calculates the distance between two places, given their latitudes and longitudes. However I wonder whether you can help me as regards ano

Re: Request for important information

1999-12-01 Thread Frank Evans
This is all definitely off topic. But with apologies here goes. > > >Wasn't there once a Scotsman who poured a bottle of Scotch over his friends >grave every year on the anniversary of his death? He just filtered it >through his kidneys first to avoid the waste. > >Mike > The world's great ocea

Re: Request for important information

1999-12-01 Thread Luke Coletti
Hello Frank and Mike, I wonder if another means of calculating oceanic residence time would be to use the total volume flow of the the world's rivers per annum as compared to the total volume of the world's oceans? Of course not all precipitation occurs over land but this could be account

Re: Request for important information

1999-12-01 Thread Pete Swanstrom
now.micron.net/~petes - Original Message - From: Alexei Pace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 5:06 PM Subject: Request for important information >Dear sundial enthusiasts Today I wish to ask something non-sundial-related... >I saw the very interesting websi

Re: Request for important information

1999-12-01 Thread The Shaws
Wasn't there once a Scotsman who poured a bottle of Scotch over his friends grave every year on the anniversary of his death? He just filtered it through his kidneys first to avoid the waste. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] 53.37N 3.02W Chester, UK

Re: Request for important information

1999-11-30 Thread Tony Moss
Alexei Pace terminated his recent posting with: > >"Behind every man alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by >which the dead outnumber the living. Since the dawn of time, a hundred >billion human beings have walked the planet Earth." -- arthur c. clarke So how many times have we 're