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Eero Ahonen nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 27/08/2006 23:00:
> Larry Hudson wrote:
>> Hmmm... Considering the temperatures there, I don't think you would
>> call it a "summer cottage". ;-)
>>
>
> Precisly wrong. There's no point travelling to a warm country in the
> middle of the summer, while everywhere is too hot. For 3-4 years, every
> summer, I've started thinking of travelling somewhere cold. Also Pluto
> would be nicely peaceful, I think.
>
It is prety peasfull. But there will be some problem with your internet
connection, namely latency! Something about 10 hours +-20 minutes. 5 hours for
your request to reach earth, then another 5 for the content to come back to you.
The variable depend of the relative orbital positions.
--
Alain
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EVERYTHING HAS A GENDER
You may not know this but many nonliving things have a gender...
A Subway is Male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.
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"Eero Ahonen" <aer### [at] removethis zbxtnetinvalid> schreef in bericht
news:44f32e24$1@news.povray.org...
> Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>>> Also, I'll need the seller to ensure I'll get a internet connection out
>>> there.
>>
>> You think the Internet is slow here on Earth? On Pluto it'll take 9
>> hours
>> just to establish a connection!
>
> That's why it can't be allowed to crash or anything. It has to be stable
> and the bits needs to be faster than light.
>
What is needed is Plutonet. :-)
Thomas
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Alain wrote:
> Eero Ahonen nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 27/08/2006 23:00:
>>
>> Precisly wrong. There's no point travelling to a warm country in the
>> middle of the summer, while everywhere is too hot. For 3-4 years, every
>> summer, I've started thinking of travelling somewhere cold. Also Pluto
>> would be nicely peaceful, I think.
>>
> It is prety peasfull. But there will be some problem with your internet
> connection, namely latency! Something about 10 hours +-20 minutes. 5
> hours for your request to reach earth, then another 5 for the content to
> come back to you. The variable depend of the relative orbital positions.
>
You're absolutely right. That's why I haven't made an offer of that
planet yet.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 14:24:07 -0700, Tim Attwood wrote:
Last I checked, Pluto has only one moon.
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Hydra and Nix were discovered in 2005.
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