for / while else doesn't make sense

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:39 AM, alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:43:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> On this list, I daresay somebody will insist that if their computer is
>> on one of Jupiter's moons it will keep running fine and therefore I'm
>> wrong.
>>
>
> Anyone on a moon of Jupiter would not be able to get internet access
> (TCP/IP time-outs mean that even Mars is outside of internet range. The
> Moon at 1.3 light seconds might manage it ) so they could not be posting
> here ;-)

Well, TCP might be problematic, but radio transmission from Jupiter
would still be faster than RFC 1149, which in its only field test took
an average of 5200 seconds to send round-trip pings over a distance of
3 miles.