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To Get an Understanding of the Speed of Earth's Rotation
"One second after the sun sets where you are, the sun will set approximately two blocks away. So, nightfall is moving at about two blocks per second or 750 miles per hour, which is just about the speed of sound." From the Outer Space section of www.worlds-strangest-website.com |
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At the North·Pole, 6 months pass before night returns.
At the North·Pole, 6 months pass before night returns. Night “falls” at zero miles per hour. |
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To Get an Understanding of the Speed of Earth's Rotation
"Jeff" wrote in message ... "One second after the sun sets where you are, the sun will set approximately two blocks away. So, nightfall is moving at about two blocks per second or 750 miles per hour, which is just about the speed of sound." From the Outer Space section of www.worlds-strangest-website.com It's actually a tad faster than the speed of sound ... that's why no one has ever heard the Sun farting .... |
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To Get an Understanding of the Speed of Earth's Rotation
On Dec 23, 7:40*pm, "Hagar" wrote:
It's actually a tad faster than the speed of sound ... In Equador, it's a lot faster and straight down. Compared to other latitudes, there's a saying "the sun doesn't set, it crashes." oc |
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? Dan Birchall and Mazlan Binti Othman at the Subaru Telescope.
lid ) wrote:
I see you work with the Subaru Telescope and Mazlan Binti Othman I do work at the Subaru Telescope (as my signature makes clear), but I don't work with Dr. Othman - we're just friends due to our shared interests in astronomy, space and environmental science. The photo of us at Subaru Telescope is from before I started working there - yellow jackets and hard hats are for people on tours, not for employees. Back story: Dr. Othman was in Hawaii for the Pacific Rim Space Law Summit organized by the National center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law at the University of Mississippi School of Law ( http://www.spacelaw.olemiss.edu/acti...vents_2009.htm ) and of course when you work in space science and find yourself in Hawaii, you have to visit Mauna Kea! (We also went to see "Star Trek" The still waters of this newsgroup may be stirred more if I note that for nearly 5 years previously, I operated the UH 2.2-meter telescope, for observers including our own Dr. Tholen. Wikipedia isn't a particularly good source of information about me (I am far from "notable") but I have a little "work homepage," with various links to other stuff (like my UH work) that I keep failing to have our webmaster actually link from the staff list: http://naoj.org/staff/djb/ At any rate, good to see you here I see you're a digital photographer and a published writer. Do you smoke ? No, but if I were chained to the secondary mirror with the scope pointed at the Sun, I suspect I would. Happy holidays, -Dan -- djb@ | Dan Birchall, Night Operation Assistant, Subaru Telescope/NAOJ. naoj | Views I express are my own, certainly not those of my employer. ..org | Oh wicked, bad, naughty, _evil_ Dan! He is a _naughty_ person. |
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Is the earth warming ? is it serious ?
Why would you ( Dan ) read Alt.Astronomy ? What can you tell us about the “Tholen·Bot” ? I enjoyed your “ http://naoj.org/staff/djb/ ” and I noticed your: “ Since March 2009, I have been enrolled as a distance-education graduate student in astronomy at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. ” ? Why Australia ? Are you getting a doctorate ? Is the earth warming ? is it serious ? |
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Is the earth warming ? is it serious ?
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? Is the earth warming ? is it serious ?
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Kids today, they have everything.
You ( Dan ) wrote: “ The Earth, like the rest of the universe, is hilarious. ”. Yea, sure, until someone pokes their eye out. My Christmas was interesting, very tech oriented. Kids today, they have everything. |
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