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• Blue Skies (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  The sky is blue because light refracts in the atmosphere.

  Why?
  • Re:Blue Skies (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    Your god will annswer those questions when you get to wherever it is you go next.
    • Re:Blue Skies (Score:2)

      by ziggy (25)

      Hm. I was hoping for an answer [amazon.com] that involved wavelengths, rods and cones. ;-)
      • Re:Blue Skies (Score:1)

        by chaoticset (2105)

        <meatwad>Science is a mystery to man, isn't it, Frylock?</meatwad>

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        You are what you think.
  • Re:Blue Skies (Score:1)

    by offerk (4962)

    Actually the sky is blue due to Rayleigh scattering. There's a good, simple explanation here:
    http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html [sciencemadesimple.com]

    As for when Perl 6 will come out, the answer is simple - Real Soon Now (TM) :-)

    Finally, what does if mean that "computers aren't as fast as they could (be)"?
    Well, obviously, a computer cannot transmit data faster than the speed of light. So computers are constrained due to the lower-than-C speed of electrical data transmittion, as well as due to the use of synchrono
• printing in europe (Score:1)

  by link (3402)

  Have you looking into mailing all the European copies to a single trusted person and having them distribute them locally?
  • Re:printing in europe (Score:2)

    by brian_d_foy (44)

    I've thought about that, but it's just as bad as mailing them myself unless everyone wants them two months late. :)
    
    It's also a big problem with customs.