Van Rijn
Order of Kilopi

Sorta Here's a link that deals wih last month's sixth annual world cup of quidditch: http://worldcupquidditch.com/

A 1.5! North Carolina was thought to be geologically inactive, then they bid for the superconducting supercollider, and installed a seismic...

Or quidditch, played on many campuses

We try. I can remember one poster who signed his full name to his initial post. The post was high enough quality that I was certain he'd be around...

It's hard to imagine an alternative steel factory without some sort of rail system--you're not going to shuttle hot ladles back and forth on rubber...

The last two links are the same.

Nobody else may have mentioned the effect of cosmic rays on computers and digital cameras, but that sure seems like an issue. Modern machines have a...

Simple physics and material strength allows one to calculate number of wheels. A single coal car carries a small hill of rock. (...

Spouse -- Spice Trousers -- Taser Douse -- Dice Souse -- Sots

If it is given as 93,000,000 miles, there are two significant digits--it's been rounded to 93 million. Of course, it's 91.5-94.5 million over the...

Interesting. The wiki says it is folk etymology. From http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=11795 That ship may have sailed! :)

OK, that clears that up. The phrase "null hypothesis" is too general and actually controversial. Why not just say, Hypothesis A, Hypothesis B,...

I think that was their point! :) There is some justification for using the semi-major axis as the average distance, as we've said, and the...

Not just superficial resemblances, either, but as Shaula mentions, in the DNA as well. Too? What are you calling the null hypothesis? :)

Like Glom, I'd say yes. Aphelion plus perihelion equals major axis, so half of that is the semi-major axis, and Kepler's laws depend upon the...

But isn't the moon of appreciable size? Or, going back to the OP, substantial enough? The moon is large enough, relative to the earth, that some...

Yesterday, some kids asked which languages I knew. I claimed an additional ability to speak British, and they were impressed, until I admitted it...

Putting in a second moon into the earth/moon system would not put you over the 1/25 limit.

L4/L5 are stabile when the large mass is 25 times as massive as the smaller mass. The earth is 80 times the mass of the moon. So, when you say...