It's only somewhat astronomy related, but it's not quite just babbling. I just really liked today's xkcd comic, and thought I'd share.
Order of Kilopi
It's only somewhat astronomy related, but it's not quite just babbling. I just really liked today's xkcd comic, and thought I'd share.
Conserve energy. Commute with the Hamiltonian.
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Excellent. Lots of funny goodies in there
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It would make a great classroom poster.
It may be cartoonish, but the visualizations about the scales and relative distances help.
And the sci-fi stuff? Hey, why not? It helps show how far out sci-fi really is.
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A bunch of us are really curious whether Randall knew about the "Map of the Universe" paper (Gott et al., 2005). If so, he doesn't credit it. He's done other similar maps logarithmic maps before, but this one is really similar... Though he does plot the location of Ford Prefect, and Gott et al. didn't.
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http://store.xkcd.com/#HeightPosterOriginally Posted by NEOWatcher
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"Open the fridge door, HAL."
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And now you can look from human scale down, too.
Conserve energy. Commute with the Hamiltonian.
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fork(); ... rofl
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"Your right to hold an opinion is not being contested. Your expectation that it be taken seriously is." -- Jason Thompson
"This is really very simple, but unfortunately it's very complicated." -- publius
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