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  Re: Quick physics question
 
(...) Eventually you will get a plasma, composed of neucleii and some electrons. At that point it's not really relevant to talk about compounds, what you have is basically soup. From memory you can't dissociate most simple molecules before they (...) (25 years ago, 16-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  SETI@Home?
 
So is anyone else participating in the SETI@Home program? I have 5 computers running it right now. Will probably have it running on another 8 or 10 soon. (URL) Lego Shop at Home: 800-835-4386 (USA) / 800-267-5346 (Canada) www.lugnet.com/news/ - A (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Quick physics question
 
Hey all, Just a quick question, or series of questions, but it'll keep me up all night if I don't find the answer. :-, If you take a sealed container with nothing but pure water, and you heated it enough -- assuming the container withstands the heat (...) (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
 
(...) Awww, it's not _that_ much longer in perl: perl -alne 'print $F[3]' although it certainly doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely. (...) Can't columns be grabbed easily in Scheme/Lisp? --Todd (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: awk vs. perl for simple tasks
 
(...) That's in reference to the awk idiom: awk '{ print $4 }' which is much longer to do in perl. I personally use this as a shell command inside Emacs all the time. I'm not good at perl one-liners. -Tim (25 years ago, 15-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: joke
 
(...) "Boy, am I glad my IQ tests came back negative." Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: joke
 
John Cromer wrote in message ... (...) Scarey experience the other day: in a shop, and the difficult customer says to the clerk "I've got a 180 IQ, explain it to me". Like, so what? I've got a size 13 foot. The only relevance is that it's about to (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  joke
 
Two guys are sitting at a bar and one turns to the other and says, "my IQ is 180. What's yours?" The other guy says, "Mine's 185! Say, did you know Fuchsian differentials have zero-integral solutions only if their monodromy representation is (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Test
 
On Tue, 11 May 1999 20:50:40 GMT, Carbon 60 uttered the following profundities... (...) That would be the apostrophe as "=bt4" person? Haven't seen a recent message to test that. But had always appeared as so with it off, so we shall see. The Uber (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Mailing gateways for newsgroups
 
On Tue, 11 May 1999 18:14:47 GMT, Thomas Main uttered the following profundities... (...) Unfortunately they don't carry the clari.* newsgroups. :( But thanks for the pointer, anyway. I shall check them regularly, should that situation change. (25 years ago, 11-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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