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Old November 11th 03, 02:32 AM
Florian
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Go to google.com and enter this as a search... 1 parsec in lightyears

Ordinary stuff like "1 mile in feet" or "12 inches in cm" work too. =20

Google is amazing.=20

;-)


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Old November 11th 03, 04:08 AM
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"1 parsec in feet" works, but "1 parsec in milimeters" doesn't.
Marty

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Old November 11th 03, 04:10 AM
Marty
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woops. "1 parsec in millimeters" works.
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Old November 11th 03, 09:05 AM
Per Erik Jorde
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"Florian" writes:

Go to google.com and enter this as a search... 1 parsec in lightyears

Ordinary stuff like "1 mile in feet" or "12 inches in cm" work too.

Google is amazing.


It's cloudy here too...

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Old November 11th 03, 10:39 AM
Søren Kjærsgaard
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"Per Erik Jorde" wrote in message
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"Florian" writes:

Go to google.com and enter this as a search... 1 parsec in lightyears

Ordinary stuff like "1 mile in feet" or "12 inches in cm" work too.

Google is amazing.


It's cloudy here too...

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LOL! :-)

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Old November 11th 03, 11:35 AM
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1 parsec in cubits works!!!

Love it

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woops. "1 parsec in millimeters" works.
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Old November 11th 03, 12:11 PM
Tom Rankin
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Try

NGC6543

or just about any other astronomical designation.

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Old November 11th 03, 01:58 PM
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"Tom Rankin" wrote in message
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Try

NGC6543

or just about any other astronomical designation.

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Tom Rankin - Programmer by day, amateur astronomer by night!



Try that with 'picture search' as default :-)

(yar, it's cloudy in Denmark too.. ;-))



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Old November 11th 03, 02:52 PM
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"Florian" wrote in message
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Google is amazing.


Florian--

absolutely! have you tried this: go to the link below and put in
"telescopes".

http://catalogs.google.com/

also, did you know that google will solve math problems?

clear, dark skies--

mark d.



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Old November 11th 03, 04:23 PM
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1 parsec in cubits works!!!


It does furlongs too. ;-)

-Florian



 




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