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Yesterday, 07:46 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Doctor Who Season 7. Starts Sept 1. Spoilers. in Small Media at Large

I am a fan of the new series, but haven't ever seen the old ones. Will I need to have some information about the old series in order to understand...

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Yesterday, 07:43 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

Ahem.. yeah. Before I acknowledge the correctness of your comment, I will say that the Matrix 3 made me realize how good a movie Matrix 2 was. I...

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Yesterday, 07:36 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Bad Statistics in Off-Topic Babbling

I managed to read most of this article, despite the bad statistics and bad grammar. It ends with this nugget:

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Yesterday, 04:43 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread WHy are movies obsessed with 'Re-boots' in Small Media at Large

The worst thing is when they take a good story and try to turn it into a brand, thinking they can actually extract everything they thought was good...

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2013-May-20, 11:43 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Expanding universe- without a big bang? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

The problem arises when you extrapolated backwards in time. If you go far enough you reach a singularity in density.

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2013-May-17, 07:49 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Stupid Commercials in Small Media at Large

Whenever I see a stupid commercial, I start to wonder how bad the ideas that were rejected must have been.

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2013-May-17, 05:35 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Kepler mission may end soon in Space Exploration

Even in the era of the Space Shuttle, it would probably be cheaper to build a new Kepler.

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2013-May-16, 08:24 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Kepler mission may end soon in Space Exploration

I thought TPF was canceled.

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2013-May-16, 08:22 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Understanding photon wave (polarized) amplitude in Science and Technology

I think your problem lies in the phrase "what it actually is". We can model the behavior of light and we use two basic models, waves and...

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2013-May-14, 08:19 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread What is the Average Distance Between Earth and Sun? in Astronomy

Average is not the same as median.

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2013-May-14, 04:28 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Possible Comet Collision with Mars in Astronomy

It looks like that 10.5 is only for the nucleus, though the page does not define specifically what they are calling the "nucleus". The total...

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2013-May-10, 11:23 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Rayleigh scattering! in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

The spectrum we see from the Sun is determined by the temperature of it's surface, not its core. The surface temperature is about 6000 K.

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2013-May-10, 06:32 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread General public's misconceptions about astronomy in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

The words "lenses" and "prisms" are often used in news articles about telescopes and instrumentation that are using neither.

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2013-May-09, 08:22 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread General public's misconceptions about astronomy in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

This seems to be a pretty good list of the major ones. Especially puzzling considering that you can often see both the Sun and the Moon in the...

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2013-May-09, 05:18 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread How accurate are thermometers... in Science and Technology

I was under the impression that car thermometers were underneath the car (so as to be out of direct sunlight, which would bias the temperature high)....

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2013-May-07, 09:02 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread What is the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Yes. Isn't the surface temperature of the sun about twice that?

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2013-May-04, 02:26 AM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Why do we have to have Black Holes? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

There are observations of stars moving around the Galactic Center and they demonstrate that there has to be something there that's very very massive...

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2013-May-03, 11:17 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Anomalous Decelerations and Accelerations of Spacecraft in Against the Mainstream

The interstellar medium is overall negatively charged? Where did you learn this?

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2013-May-03, 11:14 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Hollow Earth Question in Science and Technology

Can you provide an equation for pressure as a function of distance from the center of the Earth? Once you've provided the appropriate variables...

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2013-May-03, 09:10 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread AGW theory promoted by faith, not science in Against the Mainstream

The equivalent width of a saturated absorption line goes as the square root of the column density. So, assuming an increase of abundance would...

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2013-May-03, 05:50 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread AGW theory promoted by faith, not science in Against the Mainstream

A quick read seems to show that these are his main points: - Mann's methodology leading to the "hockey stick" graph are flawed (as per the Wegman...

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2013-May-03, 05:38 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Hollow Earth Question in Science and Technology

I don't think your "p = rho*g*h" is applicable at the center of the Earth. If you are pushed on your left side by a 1 ton force and you are pushed...

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2013-May-03, 05:36 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread The "either or" of a red shift expanding universe. in Against the Mainstream

Even if you chalk it up to an "unknown effect", we can put some limitations on what that effect may be. Perhaps some new physics may be discovered,...

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2013-May-03, 05:28 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread pressure system effects on a complex plasma form expression in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

How strong a magnetic field are you talking about? Strong interstellar magnetic fields would be noticeable in many kinds of observations.

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2013-May-02, 11:44 PM

Amber Robot replied to a thread Is the following how Earth would appear viewed from the Surface of Mars? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Check out: http://petapixel.com/2012/08/26/earth-and-jupiter-seen-in-a-single-photo-taken-from-mars/

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