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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Yesterday
Date: 29 Mar 2012 05:56:11
Message: <4f7431bb$1@news.povray.org>
Yesterday was an important day. On that day, 71 years ago, the fissile 
properties of plutonium were first discovered. And 39 years after that, 
I was born.

Yes, it's official. My age is now a 6-bit number. :-/

(But only when measured in proper time as a multiple of the Earth's 
sidereal period...)


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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Yesterday
Date: 29 Mar 2012 06:01:42
Message: <4F743307.6070400@gmail.com>
On 29-3-2012 11:56, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Yesterday was an important day. On that day, 71 years ago, the fissile
> properties of plutonium were first discovered. And 39 years after that,
> I was born.

I knew that. See the scale invariance thread ;)



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floor, unless you prefer to not use uppercase.


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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: Yesterday
Date: 29 Mar 2012 07:42:17
Message: <4f744a99$1@news.povray.org>

> Yesterday was an important day. On that day, 71 years ago, the fissile
> properties of plutonium were first discovered. And 39 years after that,
> I was born.
>

You're luckier than I am.  39 years before I was born, a bunch of 
Japanes pilots crashed their planes on American warships in Hawaii.

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From: clipka
Subject: Re: Yesterday
Date: 29 Mar 2012 08:07:09
Message: <4f74506d@news.povray.org>
Am 29.03.2012 13:42, schrieb Francois Labreque:

> You're luckier than I am. 39 years before I was born, a bunch of Japanes
> pilots crashed their planes on American warships in Hawaii.

It's news to me that the Japanese had resorted to Kamikaze strikes while 
still anywhere near Hawaii.


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From: JimT
Subject: Re: Yesterday
Date: 29 Mar 2012 11:55:01
Message: <web.4f74859ed20773d3be7517870@news.povray.org>
Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Yesterday was an important day. On that day, 71 years ago, the fissile
> properties of plutonium were first discovered. And 39 years after that,
> I was born.
>
> Yes, it's official. My age is now a 6-bit number. :-/
>
> (But only when measured in proper time as a multiple of the Earth's
> sidereal period...)

In a short time, my age will be a 4 bit number, rolled left twice,
unfortunately.


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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Yesterday
Date: 30 Mar 2012 16:18:17
Message: <4f761509$1@news.povray.org>
On 3/29/2012 2:56, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Yesterday was an important day. On that day, 71 years ago, the fissile
> properties of plutonium were first discovered. And 39 years after that, I
> was born.

Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of 
radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: Yesterday
Date: 30 Mar 2012 16:26:48
Message: <4f761708$1@news.povray.org>
On 30/03/2012 09:18 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Marie Curie invented the theory of radioactivity, the treatment of
> radioactivity, and dying of radioactivity.

Required XKCD quotation: http://xkcd.com/896/

The last line is a gem.


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