RE: Re: Drawing of whitewall...

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:04:21 +0100

> > > and get there in at a rate of 32'/minute/minute
> > > *and* expect to survive the landing.
> >
> > Well, at an acceleration of only 1/60 of gravity,

> Or even 1/3600th (/minute/minute) ....

9.81 m/sec^2, even.

> Simon (Knitpicking 10W2)

And Spelling 13. It's "nit-picking". Removal of small annoyances, nothing to do with the manufacture of fabric from yarn.

Jane
(who rolled a 1 on her own Pedantry 15W)

By the way, HQ p275

Jump down safely from a city wall: 5W2 to 10W3 Jump down safely from a fortress tower: 5W3 to 10W4

Whitewall (walls plus cliffs) is higher than any of these. Please don't try a mundane jump?