4/15/2004: Solar prominence

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally posted by onetrack
I just gotta say .. you'd better thank your appropriate God, that we have people like Paranoid to do the exacting, niggly, nit-picking calculations .. so that NASA can get launches off the ground .. so that they can get the likes of the Hubble Telescope up there .. so that they can get great pics of the Sun .. so that we can sit around arguing the toss about distances and dimensions ..

If they let journos do the launch calculations, we'd be lucky to get 1 in 1000 launches off the ground .. and only then with accidental accuracy ..

From paranoids explanation of his numbers, he must have done the original calculations for the hubble mirror. Hardly exacting, niggly, nit-picking calculations but the point is, this is hardly the place for the displayed vitriol over casual comments.