From: | James Pearley Kilbride <kilbrj@***.EDU> |
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Subject: | Re: Low-Range Ears. |
Date: | Fri, 22 Sep 1995 23:12:10 -0400 |
> Subject: Re: Low-Range Ears.
> The Kumquat wrote:
> >
> > Nature spirits disappear at sunrise or sunset, If you conjure one in the
far
> > north (i.e. Alaska), where the sun rises or sets infrequently, do they
hang
> > around for six months? ;-P
>
> Well, except for the slight problem that it's not really night or day for
> six months at a time, yes. Maybe that's why the otherwise weak Trans-Polar
> Aleut Nation has kept the Soviets at bay for so long...
>
> Now, the really interesting question would be what happens if you're
> travelling fast enough to keep up with the sun, and so gaining perpetual
> night/day? Would it vanish when it was sunrise/set where it was originally
> summoned, or would the spirit stick around?
>
> --
> Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
> Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers
> are around at 9 am, it's because they were up all night.
> *** Finger me for my geek code ***
>-- End of excerpt from Robert Watkins
NO make that twenty COPIES!!!! jeesh, and I thought I had some cool mail.. ;)