The World's Largest Computer in 1951

[Danger]

I'm going to have to google more about that one!

The guy stuck a couple of sticks (hence the name) into the ground a measured distance apart, then compared the shadow lengths to work out the curvature of the Earth.

 

[Moonbear]

Okay, looked it up. Phew, no librarians had to get thrown down wells!

Eratosthenes, a Greek geographer (about 276 to 194 B.C.), made a surprisingly accurate estimate of the Earth's circumference. In the great library in Alexandria he read that a deep vertical well near Syene, in southern Egypt, was entirely lit up by the sun at noon once a year. Eratosthenes reasoned that at this time the sun must be directly overhead, with its rays shining directly into the well. In Alexandria, almost due north of Syene, he knew that the sun was not directly overhead at noon on the same day because a vertical object cast a shadow. Eratosthenes could now measure the circumference of the Earth (sorry Columbus) by making two assumptions - that the Earth is round and that the sun's rays are essentially parallel.

http://www.youth.net/eratosthenes/welcome.html

(Shh...don't tell all those fans of Columbus that people already knew the Earth was round long before his time!)

 

[JamesU]

Okay, looked it up. Phew, no librarians had to get thrown down wells!

I'm not sure if I want to know what you've been talking about

 

[Moonbear]

Well, Ivan has been distracted, so, in the faith I'm right here my clue:

a slippery mishap

Teflon? (+10 chars)

 

[JamesU]

I killed franzbear! you guys didn't! nyah nyah nyah-nyah-nyah! I killed franzino!

 

[Danger]

Okay, looked it up.

Okay, so I missed a couple of details... (Working from memory here.)

 

[Danger]

Teflon? (+10 chars)

Either that, or he knew Sylvia too.

 

[Moonbear]

I killed franzbear! you guys didn't! nyah nyah nyah-nyah-nyah! I killed franzino!

Wrong thread.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Teflon? (+10 chars)

Too easy, I guess. Yep, teflon.

 

[JamesU]

Wrong thread.

:shy:

 

[Moonbear]

Too easy, I guess. Yep, teflon.

I don't know if it was too easy, it just popped into my mind...darn, now I have to think of one! Anyone have a clue ready who wants to take my turn?

 

[Danger]

:shy:

Go back to the Welcome tent and get a map.

 

[JamesU]

I had it upside down

 

[Moonbear]

Okay, here we go:
Brightly colored and born in Denmark, Moonbear likes their studs.

 

[Moonbear]

Go back to the Welcome tent and get a map.

I know I've needed to go back for those maps a few times.

 

[Danger]

Okay, here we go:
Brightly colored and born in Denmark, Moonbear likes their studs.

Are there any studs that Moonbear doesn't like?

 

[honestrosewater]

Hm, I've seen chocolates and candies that look like jewels...

 

[Huckleberry]

I'm thinking some kind of horse native to the region.

 

[honestrosewater]

Yeah, me too. Maybe jutlands?

 

[Danger]

Hm, I've seen chocolates and candies that look like jewels...

I was sort of thinking along the line of the jewels themselves, but I can't for the life of me come up with what kind Denmark produces. Amethyst?

 

[Moonbear]

Nope, not horses or jewels.

 

[Danger]

Nope, not horses or jewels.

Sure... be like that...

 

[Moonbear]

Sure... be like that...

Okay, the studs function better with tubes.

 

[JamesU]

is it potatoes? (i'm just wasting time)

 

[Moonbear]

is it potatoes? (i'm just wasting time)

Studs, not spuds.

 

[JamesU]

topatoes?

 

[Huckleberry]

Okay I got it, but I had to google.

good luck.

 

[honestrosewater]

Legos ...

 

[JamesU]

tomotopatoes?

 

[Moonbear]

Okay I got it, but I had to google.

Well, are you going to share? I can't stay up ALL night.