Recent content by adjkgh

wow, I'm really bummed out. thanks for the links though

i'm sorry if I'm too vague haha i'm doing a physics report on deriving the distance between Earth and the sun by using edmund halley's method. he used the transit of venus. the link that i provided above on my first post explained a lot and i get it. it's just that they didn't give me any...

yes i know that much already but i need specific numbers that halley specifically used. i just don't understand HOW and WHAT value he could get the angle E and what specific length did he use for the distance between observer A to obsever B?? thanks for the effort anyway.

i am sooooo lost in what edmund halley did. so far i understand that he used parallax and the venus transit to solve for the distance between Earth and sun but how did he exactly do it? http://www.exploratorium.edu/venus/P_question4.html the link above explains a lot but it doesn't...

oh sorry. i wasnt exactly sure where it should be =/

aristarchus was the greek astronomer who was the first to find out the distance between the Earth and the sun. he observed that when the moon was exactly half full; the Earth (E), moon (M), and sun (S) formed a right triangle with the right angle at the moon. then how did he found out that the...

yea, i guess it does make sense but i think it's the same as starving youself. in the cold, you burn more calories to function your body AND to keep warm so you would quickly feel hungry, so you eat to get more calories and the same goes on. keep on burning and eating. if you don't eat, you'd...

of course the sun cannot magically disappear, I'm saying "IF" it did, what would happen. IF it blew up, IF it was abducted by the aliens etc etc etc. what would happen IF there was no sun. there is no such way we can find out for sure what would happen but any logical ideas according to what we...

well they DO relate in a way. you would need the distance to the sun and the speed of light to know how long it would take before the sunrays disappear from earth. anyways, i don't want to argue, i just want to clear up a few questions i had. thanks who everyone to contriubuted. big help.

just a question i had in mind while reading everyone's comments. is orbit stronger than gravity? every planet has their own gravitational pull, some that are greater than others and yet none are crashing into each other. i know that another force in the opposite direction pulls it back into...

alright, i feel an argument coming up so i just like to clarify that i started this thread because i needed help on my physics project. my purpose is to derive and explain how the greek used geometry and algebra to calculate how far the sun is from earth. after that, i plan to explain further...

but exactly how much is TOO MUCH?

mary broke the law and that's bad but mary is breaking the law for a GOOD CAUSE. she is teaching a lesson to john so shouldn't that be good?

i seriosuly don't see what's really hard about the decision (perhaps this is only IMO). if you let go 1,000 criminals, they would kill even MORE innocent people. rephrase: would you rather have more than 1 innocent person die or just 1 innocent person go to jail?

i believe that people just want to encourage others to do good deeds by saying that God is good and that if you're not good, he will punish you. People like to believe what they think is true and bend the rules a bit