Ok. This thread is starting to remind me of the days when I'd browse
alt.destroy.the.earth newsgroup.
I like it.
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:46:01AM -0400, Ben Ostrowsky wrote:
> > > To get anything into orbit, it has to meet and maintain 'escape
> > > velocity' after it has reached its orbital path. For LEO, this is
> > > approx. 7 miles per second.
> > Maybe after I talk the International Astrophysical Union into lowering a
> > geosynchronous orbit from 22,241 miles out to a more manageable (in
> > terms of latency) 1000 miles or so, perhaps I can get them to reduce
> > escape velocity to, say, 2 miles per second. :)
>
> God, how inefficient! Just have them redefine g as 1.0 m/s^2 -- that'll
> bring Clarke orbits closer, reduce escape velocity, and bankrupt the
> weight-loss industry. And then there's the nice side effect of
> darwinating all the non-sf readers. It's as easy as a trip to Venus!
>
> Sorry to wander off topic, but I'm getting a chance to make a P-200
> class laptop into a Linux machine, and I'd like it to run OpenOffice.
> Any suggestions on distro and/or WM that would work well on weird
> hardware and not have too much overhead? I don't know laptops too well,
> so I definitely don't want gentoo or debian. I want a psychic distro
> that moves my mouse like a Ouija board to tell me what drivers to
> install.
>
> Ben
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