From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Thu May 16 09:55:05 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 16 May 2002 16:55:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 50442 invoked from network); 16 May 2002 16:55:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 16 May 2002 16:55:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 May 2002 16:55:04 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.6/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id g4GGt3b16032 for ; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:55:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:55:03 -0600 (MDT) To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] zgamuvjga In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=20706630 X-Yahoo-Profile: jfkominek On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ted Reed wrote: > > > I think knowing the whole path is more important than just the starti= ng > > > and ending points. > > > > Only the two observation points are relevent. The path does not have an= y > > affect on the total shift observed. (Nor can it.) > > What about a set of observation points? It's difficult to move between tw= o > points instantaneously. Please recall that you can insert a route into any bridi with the modal "veka'a". Just because you can't move between two points instantly doesn't mean that the path you took between two parallax observations is something you need to tell people about. It certainly isn't used in any relevent calculations. Given that the route can easily be inserted by a modal, and the fact that it is basically irrelevent to any realistic discussion of parallax, there is no need to force it into the meaning. And it would certainly be _wrong_wrong_wrong_ to consider discarding the start and end points, as those are the whole point of parallax in scientific measurement. - Jay Kominek Plus =C3=A7a change, plus c'est la m=C3=AAme chose