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04-16-2004, 06:07 AM | #16 | |
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04-16-2004, 12:23 PM | #18 | |
When Do I Get Virtual Unreality?
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Extreme cases have actually consumed in such profligate fashion as to actually explode.
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04-16-2004, 01:21 PM | #19 |
If ya cant take a joke, Effya!
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Now that's the kind of fart I like to leave in the elevator for the unsuspecting next riders!
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04-16-2004, 02:23 PM | #20 | |
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Re: 4/15/2004: Solar prominence
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04-16-2004, 02:28 PM | #21 |
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I am quite often wrong and depend on the kindness of folks like yourself to correct me. Thank you.
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04-16-2004, 02:48 PM | #22 | |
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“Maditation”: (heightened state of mind achieved while thinking of all the ways to kill some sanctimonious paranoid that refuses to leave any nit unpicked!)haha:
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04-16-2004, 02:51 PM | #23 |
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Yes, especially when the corrections are put so delicately and sensitively.
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04-16-2004, 02:52 PM | #24 |
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Also, since no one else pointed out that UT might look like an idiot, does that make all the rest of us idiots, too, or merely polite?
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04-16-2004, 02:54 PM | #25 |
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60,000 Kelvin? I fart that after eating a bowl of cereal. C'mon sun, you can do better.
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04-16-2004, 03:30 PM | #26 |
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Kellogs Sugar Frosted Hydrogen Flakes?
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actually, when i was looking at that pic and reading UT's description the first time, i thought it looked like a bigger area than the earth's diameter. I was told in science that a million earths could fit inside the sun. or something. Quote:
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04-16-2004, 05:53 PM | #28 | |
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Now the web site says the whole prominence is about 300,000 km long. The distance from the Sun’s surface appears to be about 1/6th of that or about 50,000 km. You say the Earth is 12,800 km in diameter? I believe you. So if I divide 50,000 km by 12,800 km, I get just over 23 Earths in there. Since you are obviously an educated person, would you be kind enough to explain what I’m doing wrong. Well, either way, the statement that the earth will fit in that space, appears to be correct. It will fit.
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04-17-2004, 11:04 PM | #29 | |
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As for how many Earths could fit inside the Sun, your science teacher was basically correct. Assuming face-centered cubic packing of Earths (the best possible), 74% of Sun's volume will be filled, which gives us about 997500 Earths. You'd have to compress them slightly to fit the whole million, but I am sure gravitation will take care of that. Quote:
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Getting back to your implied question, let me explain. First, I doubt the 300,000 km estimate given by UT. Since we know how big the Sun is and that the photo is taken almost from Earth orbit, the prominence appears to be about twice as long. Second, we don't know the position of the prominence in respect to the Sun. It might be significantly closer to Earth than the Sun is and that would greatly increase the distance. The lower bound appears to be around 20 Earths (not 50/12.8~20, mind you), but I believe it's unlikely that the prominence is exactly at the side of the Sun, so I gave a higher estimate. Quote:
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