Ansible Interview

Jeff Wilson · 25 Jan 2009, 01:56 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:56:30 -0600
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
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James Wynn wrote:
>> But the point regarding shadows is that it's always
>> noon under the long sun, and so there wouldn't be any "valleys filled
>> with shadow."
> 
> Unless they are always filled with shadow, right?
> I'm just north of the 30th parallel. If it were noon on the summer 
> solstice right now, I would cast a shadow.

You're outside of a planet, not inside a spinning asteroid.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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