Jorge Godoy godoy at ieee.org
Fri Oct 8 12:29:27 EDT 2004

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Stephen Waterbury <golux at comcast.net> writes:

> ... except for the 8+ hour (minimum!) round-trip time for your
> signal to get to Neptune and back.  Ha, you thought internet latency
> was a pain?  Yes, boys and girls, Neptune be eight light-*hours*
> away.  Earth small; space *BIG*!  (Even in our own tiny little
> neighborhood.  ;)

Do you mean that the "You have 5s to stop the nuclear reactor meltdown
in Neptune" message I got doesn't really mean 5s? ;-) Hmm...  I hope
somebody added a time machine protocol to Python.  Some neptunians will
be really angry.... ;-)

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