Una wrote:
More like the superiority of the second Travis is so obvious that
the
original Travis is indefensible :)!!
<taps Jenny's shoulder> Take care. The penguins are not with you on
this
one...
No, but the polar bears are! And once they've got those wrappers off...
Ah - but my penguins come armour-plated. Fly, fly, my pretties! OK, just shuffle, then.
Ah, but my polar bears have tin-openers. And suck Fox's Glacier Mints!
Jenny
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Jenny wrote:
Una wrote:
More like the superiority of the second Travis is so obvious that the original Travis is indefensible :)!!
<taps Jenny's shoulder> Take care. The penguins are not with you on this one...
No, but the polar bears are! And once they've got those wrappers off...
Ah - but my penguins come armour-plated. Fly, fly, my pretties! OK, just shuffle, then.
Ah, but my polar bears have tin-openers. And suck Fox's Glacier Mints!
My penguins just suck.
Una
There would have to be some sort of 'agreed upon' means of dating to avoid confusion (eg in the Solar System Mercury's year is 88 Earth days, Pluto's 240 Earth Years) - but what about galactic positioning - there would have to be some agreed upon zero 'longitude'. Perhaps one of the functions of Star One was to be the equivalent of 'Greenich Zero' - especially as it handled a certain amount of Galactic communications.
Also - as the Andromeda Galaxy would serve as a 'neutral zero' (if the invasionary tendencies of some of its inhabitants was ignored)- both the Federation and the System could agree to use it without politicising it.
Any comments?
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:12:23PM -0500, jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:
There would have to be some sort of 'agreed upon' means of dating to avoid confusion (eg in the Solar System Mercury's year is 88 Earth days, Pluto's 240 Earth Years) - but what about galactic positioning - there would have to be some agreed upon zero 'longitude'. Perhaps one of the functions of Star One was to be the equivalent of 'Greenich Zero' - especially as it handled a certain amount of Galactic communications.
Since nobody knew where it was, one could hardly use its location as a positioning aid...
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Kathryn Andersen kat@foobox.net wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 02:12:23PM -0500, jacquispeel@netscape.net wrote:
There would have to be some sort of 'agreed upon' means of dating to avoid confusion (eg in the Solar System Mercury's year is 88 Earth days, Pluto's 240 Earth Years) - but what about galactic positioning - there would have to be some agreed upon zero 'longitude'. Perhaps one of the functions of Star One was to be the equivalent of 'Greenich Zero' - especially as it handled a certain amount of Galactic communications.
Since nobody knew where it was, one could hardly use its location as a positioning aid... Kathryn Andersen
I meant that Andromeda was 'zero longitude' and Star One - which served the as a navigational computer - happened to lie in that direction.
Jacqui
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I meant in my other message that Avon would probably try this 'new' dessert to see what it was like.
What flavours would he (and the others) go for?
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