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.Scott commented on TensorCalculus's profile post.If you really want to be an astronaut and you're willing to trade your well-being and perhaps your life for wonders and glory, make sure...
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.Scott replied to the thread Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos.As mentioned before, I do a 2-hour walk every day - and in the summer, these walks are usually in the cool of the night. What is very...
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.Scott replied to the thread Life expectancy of a domestic PV system.From this description of life in the UK, the MP would have an additional motive to act. The homeowner has likely been lost his option...
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.Scott replied to the thread Life expectancy of a domestic PV system.If the situation is as it was described to me, the value of the property has decreased. It sounds to me as though he exchanged a...
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.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.Responding to "What does that mean?" I was interpreting this as meaning that the field was coming from the same direction as the light -...
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.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.I am not surprised. If the force can come from a different direction than its effect, it suggests that the field has orientation(s)...
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.Scott replied to the thread Life expectancy of a domestic PV system.You mean a competitive offer to purchase the installation? What he really needs is to purchase the solar collection rights back for his...
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.Scott reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down? with
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Unfortunately I don't think you can. There is no exact solution for your scenario, so we have no analytical equations we can use. -
.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.To avoid ambiguous wording, confusion, let me set up a scenario. Say we are being lowered to the north pole of a black hole and we have...
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.Scott reacted to Dale's post in the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down? with
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OK, I misunderstood. The "almost directly" refers to the path from C to L, and the "directly" refers to the path from C to S. I thought... -
.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.That's the exact storyline I was trying to avoid.
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.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.It had to be non-linear. For option 2, I was trying to work with first order estimates. I haven't been able to grasp how gravity...
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.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.I am not surprised that there is an "option 3" which is the accepted answer. If option 3 is anything similar to option 2, then you...
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.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.OK, glad to hear option 1 is out. I didn't expect my ship to act exactly the same. For one thing, as soon as "C" is displaced by the...
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.Scott replied to the thread I With gravitational lensing, which way is down?.If "L" is the lens, "S" is the star, and "C" is my spacecraft, then without "S", C hovers stationary (by thrusters) at some distance...
