Re: lemmings

From: Captain P.J. (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 07:49:05 PST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) >Like James Kreul, I too was away from the listserv and then amazed at the sudden flurry of activity.
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>How is it that for long periods in January and February Frameworks can remain so dormant or slow in accumulating discussion and then suddenly a >huge swarming takes place?
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>This is a purely sociological question...I guess.
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>Or does it have to do with sun spots?


The frequency of FrameWorks posts is inversely proportional to the number of current sunspots:

                                              F=50.4364/s

Where F is the amount of FrameWork posting (in KB/h) and s is the number of sunspots.  50.4364 is the Brakhage-Mekas constant discovered in early 2006 by a team of physicists working at NIST.

Seriously, though, I thought it was funny that I happened to get this in my inbox today (right after Chuck's post):

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/06mar_solarminimum.htm?list63588

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