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Spinnor reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread High School Tennis Balls in the Ocean with
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An equivalent way to see it: the sea level rise is the same as the water rise you'd observe when placing one tennis ball in a... -
Spinnor replied to the thread Undergrad Textbook description of R##\ddot{\text o}##mer's light speed calculation.Thinking about the data is what feels important to me. Lag is small at first because the separation changes slowly at first. Daily lag...
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Spinnor replied to the thread Undergrad Textbook description of R##\ddot{\text o}##mer's light speed calculation.Let the period be 2 days and take measurements for half a year. In that time Jupiter moved roughly 1/24 an orbit so in the half year we...
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Spinnor replied to the thread Undergrad Textbook description of R##\ddot{\text o}##mer's light speed calculation.Maybe it would be helpful to produce an imaginary data set. Let Io make one complete orbit in a nice round number, say 1 day or one week...
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Spinnor reacted to nicksauce's post in the thread Graduate How energy divided up in early Universe. with Like.
There's also a factor of 7/8 that comes into play: Ignoring internal states, the energy density of a relativistic species of fermions...
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Spinnor reacted to Chalnoth's post in the thread Graduate How energy divided up in early Universe. with Like.
Well, what happens in that sort of situation is that the entire system is thermalized: when you have temperatures far above the rest...
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Spinnor reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box with Like.
6000+ exoplanets detected (1988+) Discovery of the Higgs Boson (2012) Accelerating Expansion of the Universe (1998/2011) Quantum...
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With a little searching (not using AI, cough, cough), it looks like the reference may be to many bar fights involving Marines taking...
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Spinnor reacted to Filip Larsen's post in the thread Artemis 2 launch - humans return to the Moon after 54 years with Like.
I believe they are the built-in flotation device, one part of the many subsystems in the Orion Crew Survival System suit. I am not...
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Spinnor reacted to Lnewqban's post in the thread Auto/Motor Car Maintenance: Costs, Recommendations, and Debates with Like.
Use the recommended maintenance schedule from the manufacturer of your car. Do yourself the most that you can, you will learn more about...