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davenn reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Why is SI taught in US university physics courses instead of cgs? with
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Most publications in most STEM fields require SI. There are exceptions, of course, and hybrid units. But most professional science uses SI. -
davenn reacted to phyzguy's post in the thread Graduate How to compute the path 3i/Atlas will take when it passes near Jupiter? with Like.
Why do you care if it passes slightly inside or slightly outside of the Hill radius? It won't make any significant difference in its...
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davenn reacted to Julian_M's post in the thread Graduate How to compute the path 3i/Atlas will take when it passes near Jupiter? with
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Can someone please compute it. I don't know how to use them. If the Hill Radius is 53.5 million from Jupiter. I want to know if 3i/Atlas... -
davenn reacted to phyzguy's post in the thread Graduate How to compute the path 3i/Atlas will take when it passes near Jupiter? with Like.
So the JPL websire you linked says that Atlas-3I will pass within 0.358 AU of Jupiter. You want to independently verify this? The...
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davenn reacted to Bandersnatch's post in the thread Graduate How can a 1 kilometer body (3i/Atlas) flip 180 degrees suddenly? with
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Oh, lordy. It's Avi Loeb's brainchild. I'm not touching this. -
davenn reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Graduate How can a 1 kilometer body (3i/Atlas) flip 180 degrees suddenly? with Like.
Who is "us"? Why is it consuming anyone's time, except for fun? "Fine-tuned" suggests it was tuned deliberately. Is this part of what...
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davenn reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Graduate How can a 1 kilometer body (3i/Atlas) flip 180 degrees suddenly? with Like.
I am curious where this image came from. It displays a highly-elongated object along one axis - more than 4x longer than its other axes...
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davenn replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.
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How about this one: in Harahan, LA. I think they re-constructed Dickory since I lived there. I remember my GPS used to say, take...
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davenn replied to the thread Collection of Lame Jokes.
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Might as well repost this one here.
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No matter which route you take, there's always...
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I tried to read the book "How to Read a Book". But I couldn't read it without first reading "How to buy a Book" f which I couldn't read...
