The Hubble Space Telescope's prime mission, was to determine...

#1 January 28th 04, 12:11 PM

In article ,
"Ed Keane III" wrote:

wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe
was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

If there are only 42 then they must be some very large turtles.

We had about that many machine instructions. 42 choices in
any random order with unknown results gave us lots of work.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

#2 January 28th 04, 12:11 PM

In article ,
"Ed Keane III" wrote:

wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe
was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

If there are only 42 then they must be some very large turtles.

We had about that many machine instructions. 42 choices in
any random order with unknown results gave us lots of work.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

#3 January 27th 04, 02:32 PM

wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

If there are only 42 then they must be some very large turtles.

#4 January 27th 04, 02:32 PM

wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

If there are only 42 then they must be some very large turtles.

#5 January 27th 04, 08:24 PM

In article , writes:
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

Exactly.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
| chances are he is doing just the same"

#6 January 28th 04, 12:12 PM

In article ,
wrote:
In article ,
writes:
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe
was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

Exactly.

And people don't seem to understand this. The only way we
figured out how to teach it was by demonstration and most
missed the point.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

#7 January 28th 04, 12:12 PM

In article ,
wrote:
In article ,
writes:
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe
was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

Exactly.

And people don't seem to understand this. The only way we
figured out how to teach it was by demonstration and most
missed the point.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

#8 January 28th 04, 12:12 PM

In article ,
wrote:
In article ,
writes:
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe
was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

Exactly.

And people don't seem to understand this. The only way we
figured out how to teach it was by demonstration and most
missed the point.

/BAH

Subtract a hundred and four for e-mail.

#9 January 27th 04, 08:24 PM

In article , writes:
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

Exactly.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
| chances are he is doing just the same"

#10 January 27th 04, 08:24 PM

In article , writes:
In article ,
wrote:
In article , Mike Simmons
writes:
Sam Wormley wrote:

After years of data the answer
from Hubble is 72 km/s/Mpc!

I thought the answer to the ultimate question regarding the Universe was
42.

It is, in appropriate units. Now you just have to find the units.
And the question.

It's the question that is the hard part.

Exactly.

Mati Meron | "When you argue with a fool,
| chances are he is doing just the same"

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