To: zeestephen
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To measure lots of time in nanoseconds, get a longer string
2 posted on
04/03/2014 6:13:26 PM PDT by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
To: bert
So when the sun expands into a red giant and the earth is engulfed in a firey corona and turned into a cinder, this thing will be more than a minute off?
16 posted on
04/03/2014 6:52:17 PM PDT by
Smedley
(It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
To: bert
To: bert
a friend of mine still has a nanosecond
29 posted on
04/03/2014 7:16:40 PM PDT by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: bert
*** To measure lots of time in nanoseconds, get a longer string ***
Don't you mean, nanoo nanoo seconds?
32 posted on
04/03/2014 7:26:32 PM PDT by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: bert
Thanks for the Grace Hopper memory. I sat in one of her time and technology lectures at the Naval Academy as a midshipmen some 35 years ago. I still use the nano-second = ~12” wire analogy to this day. :)
53 posted on
04/04/2014 8:21:51 AM PDT by
Magnum44
(I have had just about enough)
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