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- From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
- To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:43:33 -0500
on Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:31:25PM -0500, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> Michael D. Thomas wrote:
> > 8:02 p.m. today will be an exciting minute!
>
> Shit, I missed it! Got caught up in cooking dinner and, oh well. No
> other such opportunity in this lifetime.
Quick - drive to Missouri.
> Ultimately, isn't the date and time a generally arbitrary counting
> system? Why are their 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, and so
> forth? This "symmetry" has no relationship to the natural world. We
> know how long a day is, and we can mark each day from when the sun
> reaches its zenith. We can similarly mark the year. But getting down
> to a finer level of granularity beyond that imposes an artificial system
> of measurement on the concept of time.
Blame the Babylonians. (Should be fashionable this year, anyway).
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_125.html
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_194a.html
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_166.html
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[internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Michael D. Thomas, 11/11/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Thomas Beckett, 11/11/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Chris Hedemark, 11/11/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Victor Minton, 11/11/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, craig duncan, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Steven Champeon, 11/11/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Michael D. Thomas, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Thomas Beckett, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Shea Tisdale, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
burnett, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Shea Tisdale, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
burnett, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Chris Hedemark, 11/11/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Michael D. Thomas, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Maria C Winslow, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Calvin Powers, 11/14/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Thomas Beckett, 11/12/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002, Sil Greene, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Maria C Winslow, 11/12/2002
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Re: [internetworkers] 20:02, 11-11, 2002,
Thomas Beckett, 11/11/2002
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