Re: Where should one report search.cpan.org breakage?

That would be Dept. 42.

I heard a weird thing on the Discovery Channel's show on Gravity. "If you drill a tube thru the earth, from any 2 surface points, and let gravity alone move a frictionless sled thru it, it takes exactly 42 minutes to get to the other side. Paris--New York, or Beijing--Washington..... the math of gravity always results in 42 minutes.

There is something profound in that. :-)

As far as your errors trying to get to cpan, I see the same thing right now, but it propably is a computer failure somewhere..... and since this is all volunteer services, don't expect it to be fixed within 42 minutes.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum

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Re^2: Where should one report search.cpan.org breakage? by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on May 21, 2008 at 03:44 UTC
42 minutes and 12 seconds to be more exact. Here is the underlying math. One interesting feature is that any gravity train trip, from any two points, on any planet (of the same density as earth) will take the same time. One could speculate this is why Deep Thought came up with the answer 42 in the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy.	[reply]
Re^3: Where should one report search.cpan.org breakage? by DrHyde (Prior) on May 21, 2008 at 09:57 UTC
This does assume that the two points are the same distance from the centre. Which is rarely the case given that planets aren't quite spheres. In fact, if you were to dig a tunnel from London to Lagos and drop something into the hole at the London end, I don't think it would ever reach Lagos. Instead it would get most of the way there and then go back to London. IIRC this interesting little fact also assumes that the tunnel is straight - a tricky feat to pull off when most of the planet is hot and fluid.	[reply]
Re^4: Where should one report search.cpan.org breakage? (gravity) by tye (Sage) on May 21, 2008 at 17:24 UTC
Ah, but you've completely neglected to address the economic complications of making such a tunnel! And they are peanuts compared to the political difficulties. The "frictionless" detail may also present a minor problem. But I think the perl 6 developers could certainly learn something from these considerations. - tye	[reply]