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Happy Birthday

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Ranjit Bhatnagar05 Apr 1999, 13:34originalas archived
Happy Birthday
Today is the second anniversary of the opening of the Urth list on April 5, 1997. Since that day we've written almost 7 megabytes or about 2000 pages. To put this into perspective, the stream of words would reach to Alpha Centauri and back, if each letter were seven million miles long. Well, maybe that doesn't really put things into perspective at all. Anyway, thanks for the long, fascinating conversation. -- ranjit
Mitchell A. Bailey05 Apr 1999, 17:11originalas archived
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Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote: Today is the second anniversary of the opening of the Urth list ... Since that day we've written almost 7 megabytes or about 2000 pages. To put this into perspective, the stream of words would reach to Alpha Centauri and back, if each letter were seven million miles long. Well, maybe that doesn't really put things into perspective at all.
... Well, if you transmit via electromagnetic radiation of some wavelength so it propogates at c = ~186,000 miles/s, and you've got a REALLY slow modem, so that it takes 3.76 sec to transmit each letter/byte...

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