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I'm not sure this is number makes any sense. A 100 meg processor executes a maximum of 10^8 operations per second, no matter how much memory it has available. My source of inform…
22 Apr 2002, 18:15
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My introduction to Wolfe was the first novella in Fifth Head. At the end I felt I'd been knocked on my ass, and I strongly suspected that I had experienced a work of real genius e…
12 Apr 2002, 16:28
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Yeah I once posted some similar thoughts, although I didn't do any math. Have you considered the possibility that the narrator is accustomed to gravity less than 1 g? I'm assumin…
12 Mar 2002, 00:49
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Yes, that's my understanding. I think it's clear that since the two planets tug on each other so hard when they get close together, this is an unstable arrangement. It can't stay…
09 Jan 2002, 19:19
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Hello everyone, Long time lurker, first time poster. I also have a soft spot for this hypothesis, since it was my first guess before OBW even came out. I figured Typhon was e…
08 Jan 2002, 18:32
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