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  Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
 
(...) at a solid 1.2mb over my ADSL connection, with most websites popping up near instantly, the way they used to at the office before Napster killed our DS-3. Win98 SE IE 5.5 Colon about 4 seconds to get to the bricksmiths page encoded colon about (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Codes, Cyphers and Sequences, Oh My! (LONG)
 
Hi all! Fire up your decryption algorythyms and sequence degenerators, the fun's about to start... Delete this if not interested. 1) Child's Play: What's the next letter in this sequence? O,T,T,F,F,S,S,... 2) Teenagers Play: What's the next set of (...) (24 years ago, 30-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Hot Paper?
 
(...) Note that I think the LDEF had some paper/cardboard panels, you might try spelunking the NASA site for the writeup on what happened to them. I could be misremembering, maybe LDEF only had metal and plastic panels. But there were over 500 of (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Hot Paper?
 
(...) So all we need to do to solve this is build and launch a satellite made out of paper. Think of how little fuel we'd need! Dave! (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Hot Paper?
 
(...) Incident radiation. The paper may BE in a vacuum, but it, itself, is not a vacuum, it has density greater than 0. Hence paper is not a vacuum. Consider why some satellites spin. To keep their surface temperature within bounds, by allowing the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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