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dpbrown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 07:37 PM
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Couldn't a broken clock on an airplane around the world be right all day?



Just wanted to take an extreme, to, well, an extreme.

Carry on. Nothing else to see here.

:shrug:



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Dangerously Amused Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 09:06 PM
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1. ONLY if it was traveling east to west.
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dpbrown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 09:10 PM
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2. If it was travelling west to east under Superman's arm...




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I'm just sayin' doncha know.


;)


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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 10:00 PM
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3. I think it would be right once every hour
because of local standard time zones.

Now if you're talking local mean time, i.e. like a sundial, then a plane flying east to west at the right speed could probably come pretty close.



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