Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:42:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: pinwheel in space

"Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> Madeleine Yeh wrote:
>> What do you mean by mean time?  Should some of us

> Probably the usual meaning.  Since there's no evidence that the
> universe had a beginning or will have an end, every time is the
> median time of existence.

Median isn't the same as mean.  And there is strong evidence that the
universe had a beginning, 13.7 billion years ago.

> Probably why we are all so average... ;-)

I've never met an average person.  Have you?  Did they have one
testicle and one breast?

Getting back to the subject line, no signal has been received from the
solar sail spacecraft.  It's too soon to give up all hope, but it's
not looking good.

Has nobody but me noticed that the name "Cosmos-1" for a satellite
had already been used?  (Google on "65S3".)