Re: Comet impact in the Eastern United States - Feasibility of Evacuation

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>	Well, we don't actually know what the upper level of attainable
>technology is for us but it does seem at least conceivable that the time
>scale involved makes it possible to move the Earth.

Which will, finally, decouple some of the metric _and_ English system of
measure from their origins completely, instead of this namby-pamby "insert
a leap second every few years" stuff. For SCIENCE!

Dave
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