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(...) As I understand it, the time dilation will occur for the occupant of the fast-moving ship, who will experience dilation relative to the stationery observer. The traveler won't notice the slowing of time, since everything in his frame of (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) no, he's right, it's terrible. :) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) laf. That's the paradox. I think we won't know until we try it. I've seen physicists get cross eyed thinking about it. Some say that _no_ time will pass at all! But again, this is what I remember from highschool, and my memory isn't that good (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Let me rephrase the question: If a man travels on a ship away from earth for 5 light years at .5c, then returns to earth at .5c, who will have aged 20 years, the occupant or his twin who stayed on earth? Jude (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) heh. depending who you ask. for the dude in the ship, the _world_ is moving at .5c, and so the world is aging slower. (btw, it's not a 1/x ratio, I think it's closer to a 1/x^2, but highschool was a long time ago...). For the people on earth, (...) (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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If a ship travels for 5 light years at .5c, for whom will the trip take 10 years? The occupants or an observer outside the ship? Jude (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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(...) Well, I had my CPU overclocked from 66MHz on the bus to 83 so it's all my bad I guess.. (...) LOL! Well, I can get a hold of 'em again but all the work in getting them into the right folders etc. is gone :( /Tobbe (24 years ago, 7-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Hey cool -- BU's subscription works there, and it's a much nicer interface than our primative gateway. :) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Thanks for all your help. With a search engine, I have found MS GIF Animator, which is about 1.5 megs and quite useful. </alan> (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Try www.oed.com but i'll warn you, it's pretty salty from what I recall. Markus (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes, when I graduated from The College of Charleston <www.cofc.edu>, SC in 1994 all I had access to was the 20+ volume set of the OED that we had in the library. There was talk about the OED being available online or that it was being (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Access online. It's restricted to Boston University though, so unfortunately sharing the link won't help you much. :( (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) thanks! that worked beautifully. (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Ouch... I'm similar...hasn't crashed yet. 4-5GB of MP3s on a FAT32, Win2k on a PII400 with 256mb RAM. Better do some backing up.... (Hopefully I won't have to) feel your frustration. :\ -Tim (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Jude (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
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10GB of MP3 on a FAT32 disk, Win2k, an Intel PII 266 @ 333 (4x 83MHz) is NOT a good combination, I just found out. The filesystem crashed and I now have about 4000 FILExxxx.CHK files instead of a nice directory-tree with sorted and labeled MP3's... (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Since this is a gnu tool, you can probably get this on many non-Unix platforms too. (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) If you're using a UNIX variant the split command will do this for you. i.e. split -l 1000 [filename] Chris (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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does anyone know of a way to split a text file into multiple files based on the number of lines? ie: 5000 lines split in to five files of 1000 lines each. i've been trying to figure out a way to do it with perl, but no luck so far. but any way to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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