The World's Largest Computer in 1951

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Ok, Its Huckleberry's turn. I like this thread. :biggrin:
 
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Who was the first person in history to have written evidence of an accurate solution for Olbers' Paradox?

I hope I got this right, but there it is. We'll know soon enough.
 
Kepler was so disturbed by this paradox that he simply postulated thta the universe was finite, enclosed within a shell, and hence only a finite amount of starlight could reach our eyes.

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers in 1823 wrote that the starlight is absorbed by dust clouds. "How forunate that the Earth does not receive starlight from every point of the celestial vault! Yet, with such unimaginablee brightness and heat, amounting to 90,000 times more than what we now experience, the Almighty could easily have deisnged organsims capable of adapting to such extreme conditions." Olbers suggested the dust clouds must absorb the intense heat to make life on Earth possible.
 
Nope.
How should I know when to give a clue?
 
Huckleberry said:
Nope.
How should I know when to give a clue?
Just listen to your sadistic streak. :biggrin:
 
Mk said:
No! I got the answer.
what year was Kepler's discovery?
 
In 1848, the first person in history to solve the mystery was Edger Allen Poe, who had a long-term interest in astronomy. Just before he died he published the answer in a philosphical poem entitled Eureka: A Prose Poem.

Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy - sice there could be absolutely no point, in all that backgroud, at which would not aexist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids whihc our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing that the distance of the invisible background [is] so imense that no ray from it has yet to be able to reach us at all. [This] idea is by far too beautiful not to possesses Truth as its essentiality.
 
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Oh, and Lord Kelvin also discovered it in 1901.
 
MK has the right answer. Or at least the answer that I was looking for.

Just like Lord Kelvin, to come up with an answer before the question is asked. Poe was the name I had in mind.
 
I am an autistic savant and child prodigy that was born around 1850, in America. Mark Twain regularly attended my concerts before I started my world tour. Give two of my names. :smile:
 
Mk said:
I am an autistic savant and child prodigy that was born around 1850, in America. Mark Twain regularly attended my concerts before I started my world tour. Give two of my names. :smile:
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins
 
She drew a blank, intentionally, with this invention in 1951.
 
zoobyshoe said:
She drew a blank, intentionally, with this invention in 1951.
Etch-a-Sketch?
 
Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith in 1951.
 
Mk said:
Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith in 1951.
That's it!
 
This group of people in the 1500s did not eat worms.
 
That would be referring to The Diet of Worms, being a meeting of the estates of the holy roman empire in Worms, Germany, to address Luther's theses criticising the catholic church. It was held by holy roman emperor Charles V
 
Yes. Your turn to formulate a question!
 
The centre of the Earth prooved too far, despite their very expensive efforts.
 
What country? This could be a lot of groups.
 
Vert true Mk, Very True.
 
It was America.
 
The deepest research borehole ever drilled was in Russia, on the Kola peninsula. Over a period of more than a decade a huge purpose-built rig drilled to over 12 kilometers to investigate the structure of the Continental Crust. Its about 12,226 meters deep.
 
*doubletakes* America? Is my world's deepest hole going the right direction?
 
You're on the right track. This was undertaken by The American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC), and wasn't in Russia.
 
Oh, well now you told us the answer.

What do the rules say now?
 
How about just Zygotic Embryo posts a question.
 

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