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(Independent of retrograde phase) I count five times in your animation when red and yellow are parallel (and therefore Mars and Pollux...

No link to video for us vultures?

Re-examining your sim. A Mars-Pollux conjunction occurs any time red and yellow lines are parallel. Is it possible you are...

🤔 Clearly a multiple conjuction can occur. You provided an example. And clearly, the passing cars analogy is flawed. So, in answer to...

I'm afraid I don't follow what you're asking/asserting. Why does that create a paradox?

Hm. It is almost the same question. Reporting to check with mods.

TIL a CR2032 battery is 20mm in diameter and 3.2mm thick. A CR2025 is 2.5mm thick. All CR batteries follow this naming convention.

It depends whether the sheep have perfected the Fosbury Flop.

Well, it has been 7 years in your reference frame, but ...

I think all he was expecting was this: i.e. that, when at opposition, Mars should be at its closest (along the Y-axis), rather than...

Is there some reason why you can't dig a ring ditch? You could double its effective height (or halve the work) if you pile the excavated...

He specifically said "scientific guesses" are useless. Learning from experts is a better way. Trial and error is another way.

It means the same. A 1:100 slope would be a lot easier to scale than a 2:1 slope.

This is what I was saying, yes.

Are you sure my image isn't upside down? One of the oppositions was in the southern hemisphere. I had to rotate the image 180 degrees to...