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Dauphin is offline Dauphin
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A Venus day is actually longer than a Venus year.
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Isn't that Mercury?
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Don't think so. Let me check
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quote:
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Thanx, Provost, i think iv'e got it! but don't you think it's a coincidence that the time it takes the earth to revolve is so near a day? thats not the case for the other planets?


The reason why we call it a "day" is because that's the time between one sunrise and the next sunrise. Which is also one complete rotation of the earth.
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sorry Krazy, i was joking, i know Mercury's day is longer than it's year and Venus' day is nearly a year long etc.
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Venus stats

Time to rotate: 243 Earth days
Orbit: 225 Earth days

Mercury stats

Time to rotate: 58.6 Earth days
Time to orbit around the sun: 88 Earth days
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jeez, what have i done???

I WAS ONLY JOKING!!!

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quote:
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Venus stats

Time to rotate: 243 Earth days
Orbit: 225 Earth days

Mercury stats

Time to rotate: 58.6 Earth days
Time to orbit around the sun: 88 Earth days


March of the pedants

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It was a response to KH, not a pedantic comment on your guesstimate.
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March of the pedants


theres some shocking rounding errors creeping in though!!!


58.6 days for Mercury instead of 58.646 may be acceptable for some people, but 225 days instead of 224.7 for Venus is disgracefull!!!
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They're both good to 3 sig figs, so everything's kosher.

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apart from pigs
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and shellfish.
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here's a serious one then Prov, Krazy,

in a classical newtonian telescope, can you see the secondary mirror, when you look through the eyepiece? if not, why not? the light passes it?

PS surely 225 days for Venus isn't good to 3 D.P.?
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and hoopoes (Upupa epops)

Why do I know the latin name for the hoopoe?

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Buggered if I know...I'm a biochemist after all

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here's a serious one then Prov, Krazy,

in a classical newtonian telescope, can you see the secondary mirror, when you look through the eyepiece? if not, why not? the light passes it?


Its image is scattered across the entire field of view, rendering it invisible. This is because it's so much closer to the primary than the potential targets. At least, this is what my hastily-drawn ray diagram is telling me.
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Buggered if I know...I'm a biochemist after all




sorry, i had in in my head you were a physics PHD for some reason?
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Its image is scattered across the entire field of view, rendering it invisible. This is because it's so much closer to the primary than the potential targets. At least, this is what my hastily-drawn ray diagram is telling me.


...got you thinking though eh? it's a bit a of a head wrecker isn't it?
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What are the little plastic thingies on the ends of my shoelaces called?
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What are the little plastic thingies on the ends of my shoelaces called?
aglets
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I actually know that, but I can't remember right now.

It might be "dag".

EDIT: IW's right.
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and hoopoes (Upupa epops)

Why do I know the latin name for the hoopoe?


Because it's comedy. I always remember it as well.

Bugs - P G Wodehouse used the interesting fact that disgruntled appears to have no "positive" in Code of the Woosters. Bertie narrates, with respect to possibly Jeeves, but I fancy not (I can't find the actual quote right this minute):

quote:
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled
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How do you solve problems of "sin x + x = a" type.
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Newtonian regression.
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Dunno what that is, but I'd say Taylor expansion.
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No, because to get any degree of accuracy you'll need 5+ terms, leaving yous with a daunting polynomial.
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Newtonian regression: take a guess (X0). Make a better guess (X1) based on how close X0 got you and the slope at X0. Rinse, repeat as often as required.
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here's an easy one



prove that

x^n + y^n = z^n

has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2.


i do have a proof, but I can't be arsed to write it down here
 
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