Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:00:37 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> 
> did spake, saying:
> 
>> Phil Cook wrote:
>>> A stopwatch and an astronaut with really quick reflexes.
>>
>> You're not joking. The first evidence that light had a speed was 
>> someone (galileo?) noticing that the shadows cast by jupiter's moons 
>> on jupiter's clouds were not where they should have been.
> 
> I seem to recall something about a moon being eclipsed when it shouldn't 
> have been.

Yeah, that sounds more likely. I knew it was something like that.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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