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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom,rec.arts.sf.movies Subject: Re: Captain Nemo's Timeline Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 07:57:17 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <20250612a@crcomp.net> <102kh6h$buub$1@dont-email.me> <102mvh8$1fa$1@panix2.panix.com> <102p3e4$1kl9j$1@dont-email.me> <102pa7d$1meh5$1@dont-email.me> <11e05kpl7esdqlaiv7idtc8u2qu8bnf1gu@4ax.com> <102phop$1nscd$1@dont-email.me> <9e135khrtjc96t5fhd88t3mc0hc98l5fbg@4ax.com> <102s1gb$2fhbc$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:57:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="84d65b315c57bbd724ac306af38a080c"; logging-data="3361973"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Gp7aV7OPJz3se9DjlCB1kCqeWKs4Zzmw=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:4/p/EWdi+2hiCY7EdtaAdwP4Ebk= On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:27:08 -0700, Tim Merrigan wrote: >On 6/17/2025 8:14 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:46:16 -0400, "Evelyn C. Leeper" >> wrote: >>=20 >>> On 6/16/25 11:29 AM, Paul S Person wrote: >>=20 >> >=20 >>>> Oh, and that my father had to point out that the "20,000 leagues" = were >>>> a horizontal measurement, not a vertical one. I was quite young at = the >>>> time. >>> >>> I had to point this out to someone (an adult) on a panel at Philcon = 2005. >>=20 >> In my (our?) defense, the Nautilus /is/ a submarine and submerging is >> what it does. But the horizontal interpretation is correct. > >OTOH, 20,000 leagues is approximately 10 times the diameter of the = Earth. Ah, but "horizontal" doesn't mean "in a straight line". It doesn't even mean "on a Great Circle". They move around a bit. But perhaps the title was chosen by Marketing ... --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"