[ale] HELP!!! /HDA DISASTER!

[Thompson Freeman]

Oh boy! Watch them thair decimal points - they can really mess up your
day!

My appologies to the list for the error

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, John Mills wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> 
> > This is from memory - sound speed is approx 11000 ft/sec or 770 mile/h at
> > sea level. 
> 
> Sad to hear from someone whose memory is in worse shape than mine, but I
> think we've had decimal-point creep again! My old rule of estimating the
> distance to a lightning strike is "one mile away for every 5 seconds
> between flash and sound", or about 1,100 ft/sec (give or take the speed
> of light 8-).
> 
> Regards -
>  John Mills
> 
> 

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Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net


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