Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:07:14 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>, <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fly by...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 04:16 PM 8/30/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>> omni at omniphile.com 8/30/2005 4:02:18 PM >>>
>>At 02:01 PM 8/30/05 -0400, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/the_mission/flyby_movie.html
>>>
>>>You'll need RealPlayer to view the very short movie....
>>
>>When you post this sort of thing, could you give a bit more of a hint
>
>>about
>>what it is?  Not all of us have our own T1 line, and it can be a
>>substantial investment of time to go see what it is that you are on
>>about.
>>
>
>Oh... sorry.
>Though the link above does state:
>"Earth rotation (4.90 MB) or Earth rotation with date and time (5.78
>MB)"  which would seem to this non-geek the two files in question are...
>large.
>
>Or does the page itself take "a substantial investment of time" ?

Nothing had loaded at all in 30 seconds, so I assumed it was redirecting to
an autodownload of the actual movie (and I assumed a movie because of the
name of the html file).  I don't have *that* slow a link (144K DSL), so the
average text page does at least start to appear almost right away.  When it
doesn't, it's usually because a really large file is starting to download.
I aborted at that point, so I never saw anything about the sizes involved
or what it was all about.

Thanks for the info about the sizes at least.

-- Mike B.
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