Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph From: adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Sarek's age Message-ID: <274@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 20:20:54 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.274 Posted: Fri Dec 14 20:20:54 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 04:59:09 EST References: <2630@dartvax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 22 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** > From "Journey to Babel" (D.C. Fontana), Spock's father Sarek is 102.437 > TERRESTRIAL years old. One notes that specifying the age to this precision > (10^-3 yrs) implies that Sarek (the one who gives the age) knows his age > with an uncertainty of approximately 8 hrs and 46 minutes. One would > think he'd know his date and time of birth more precisely, being the hard- > guy Vulcan that he is. > > George Raiche He probably felt...sorry, thought that this answer was in the ballpark enough for the tastes of a mere human (Kirk). After all, they get disturbed when Vulcans are too precise. -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph "Computers are like preppies: they just boil around in their own way and you have to do things their way or they blow you off." "Everything that was different was a different thing..."