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Bystander reacted to Frabjous's post in the thread Astronomy Looking for a book on the effects of orbits on celestial observations with
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I ended up ordering a used copy of Astronomy by Baker. Thanks for all of the suggestions. -
Bystander reacted to Andy Resnick's post in the thread The Secrets of Prof. Verschure's Rosetta Stones with Agree.
Another altered carbonatite: Altered carbonatite. A veinlet of carbonatite intrudes into an existing carbonatite pluton, bisecting a...
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Ugh. "Three environmental groups are suing the federal government to try to block the restart of the Palisades Nuclear Plant in...
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Bystander reacted to phinds's post in the thread Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college? with Agree.
@sevensages I have read this thread with some amusement. I am a grammar Nazi, and as some on this forum know, I often correct people's...
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OK, now I'm starting to understand why my wife's friends ask her if I'm all right when I post stuff online that is so obscure only I get...
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Bystander reacted to Averagesupernova's post in the thread Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college? with Agree.
This is not necessarily agreed upon. Of course I can take it a step farther and ask for the definition of general education. - My...
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I went looking for synonyms of clan (thanks @fresh_42, for pursuing it). What do y'all think of the term kinship? As in: "the kinship"...
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Bystander reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college? with
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Correct. I mastered it by high school. Then why did they get accepted? That's a rhetorical question. My point being that if theyre not... -
Bystander reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college? with Like.
Isn't that what grade school is for? Why waste time in uni on the basics? Isn't that what application interviews and entrance exams are...
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That's the thing - that would mean killing his anonymity at PF.
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Bystander reacted to Bandersnatch's post in the thread High School Red shifted tired light doubts with Agree.
Wright's tutorial pages list issues with tired light. https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm It's good to keep those in mind as...
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Bystander replied to the thread Astronomy Looking for a book on the effects of orbits on celestial observations.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Horace_Baker
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Bystander replied to the thread What is alfalfa used for?.Fifty/sixty years ago "they said"/the story was that "foundering" was the result of a "too rich" diet; admittedly I've never heard of...
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