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- From: higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Trekglow brighter than sci.space (was Re: Star Trek Realism)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.013938.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 07:39:38 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.165309.106551@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Jul30.050224.28461@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul30.050224.28461@rvgs.vak12ed.edu>, khanna@rvgs.vak12ed.edu (Kevin Hanna) writes:
- > 18084TM@msu.edu writes:
- >> When the ship is streaming through space, stars moving past
- >> at several per second, how is it that the ship is steadily lit from one
- >> side? What is the source for this light?
- >
- > The light comes from the Enterprise's running lights reflecting
- > off the hull of the observer's ship. Geez! :-)
-
- Hmm, r-to-the-fourth dependence, times geometry of camera ship, times
- reflectivity of camera ship... seems like we should be seeing some REALLY
- bright lights shining toward us from the *Enterprise* if Kevin Hanna's theory
- is right.
-
- Well, maybe the camera ship is covered with Scotchlite. And we can't rule out
- that it's really *big*...
-
- Disclaimer & apology: I am aware that there are newsgroups and
- mailing lists devoted to discussion of *Star Trek*. However, I never
- read 'em, so I would have missed this thread if it had been conducted
- there. Take heart-- this thread will damp out soon and we will return
- you to chatter about the "real thing" again.
-
- As food for thought, here are the Usenet Arbitron statistics for May 1992
- posted by Brian Reid (reid@decwrl.DEC.COM):
-
- +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
- | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
- | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
- | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
- | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
- | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
- | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
- | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
- | | | | | | | | who read this group.
- V V V V V V V V
- 45 94000 2023 82% 834 1744.8 13% 0.04 4.1% sci.space
- 83 77000 1661 81% 857 2424.9 12% 0.06 3.3% sci.astro
- 119 65000 1415 76% 10 43.2 0% 0.00 2.9% rec.arts.startrek.info
- 146 59000 1282 63% 81 186.4 36% 0.00 2.6% rec.arts.startrek
- 195 51000 1098 80% 294 507.6 3% 0.02 2.2% sci.space.shuttle
- 245 46000 995 58% 1725 3570.2 4% 0.11 2.0% rec.arts.startrek.current
- 280 43000 923 58% 1101 2942.5 11% 0.10 1.9% rec.arts.startrek.misc
- 390 36000 768 60% 220 1064.5 0% 0.04 1.5% sci.space.news
- 437 33000 709 57% 461 1043.9 4% 0.04 1.4% rec.arts.startrek.tech
- 464 31000 681 58% 191 1561.4 5% 0.07 1.4% alt.startrek.creative
- 526 28000 609 57% 108 214.4 32% 0.01 1.2% rec.arts.startrek.fandom
- 959 13000 272 55% 118 318.5 11% 0.03 0.5% talk.politics.space
-
- Totals (ignoring crossposting):
-
- *Trek*-related messages: 3977
- Space-related messages: 2323
-
- *Trek*-related volume: 9562.5 kbytes
- Space-related volume: 6060.3 kbytes
-
- *Trek*/space ratio
- by message: 1.712
- by volume: 1.578
-
- Oh, well, I think we're still beating out alt.tv.simpsons.
-
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