our sun is a little bitch

wait for it.....

 

Keep in mind that this info comes from the same people who for years thought Pluto was a planet.

 

as opposed to the people that said the earth is the center

 

As near as I can tell, I'm the center of the universe.

 

It is a rather strange concept that so many can have the same exact notion. Which reminds me of the only philosophy joke I know.

Descartes walks into a bar, the bartender asks him if he wants to order a drink. Descartes says "No, I think not." and disappears

 

Cool.

 

I actually once took a physics course at a top college titled "The Scale of Things." I still have the textbook. Relative to the size of a human, sizes in nature go down to a quark more orders of magnitude than they go up to the biggest star.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(length)

 

Well, for now anyway... you're kinda stuck at 10^-35 as your lowest, but since the universe is expanding, all you have to do is wait and that co-moving distance gets larger and larger.

 

Waiting for that will keep me busy compared to waiting for Oden to come back.

 

How do they figure out the sizes of those stars?

 

There are 9 easy steps!

1. Extend your arm fully and hold up your thumb.

2. Align your thumb with the star, as if to point at it.

3. If you have not yet gone outside, do so now.

4. Using a fine point pen, mark gradations on your thumbnail showing both ends of the star.

5. Search for a lit room that contains a ruler. Measure the distance between the gradations.

6. Here's where scientific expertise is needed. Estimate the portion of the last 16th of an inch. You can do it!

If you've gotten this far, congratulations! You've earned bragging rights at S2. Hang on, you're almost done. Just keep listening to jlprk.

7. Look up the distance to that star in an encyclopedia. Any will do, but I recommend the "Farmers' Star Radius Almanac," available postpaid 7-day shipping available. Just ask me and have your credit card ready.

8. Using a calculator that handles enough digits, multiply the measured width by the distance you looked up.

9. Success! Be sure to always write your results on a list so you don't have to repeat for the same star. Don't let it get monotonous--get your friends involved in your new hobby! Tell them about the almanac.

You are on your way to becoming a proud amateur sleuth!

 

Stupid scientific method and its tendency to sometimes get things wrong, acknowledge those mistakes, then come up with new explanations to try to more closely describe the universe.

If they were so smart they'd get it right the first time. Like religion does.

 

Or they'd just be better at lying about it, like religion does.

 

Still waiting for that on the "global warming" scam.

Same with the Big Bang/Evolutionary theory. Except they didn't use the Scientific Method...

 

It'll happen with all three of those things once a model that better fits the observable data and makes better predictions is created.

Science isn't about Truth, it's about the best models of what we see. Every model lasts only for as long as a better model isn't created to replace it. If you want them replaced, work on better models and publish them!

 

The Shuttle program ends and the hardware is doled out.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts134/110412museums/

The Museum of Flight in Seattle will receive a full fuselage shuttle trainer.

 

Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon will receive a shuttle simulator and an orbital maneuvering system rocket engine.

 

Do we get to play with the simulator if we visit the museum?

 

We have the Endeavor shuttle, SR-76, and Enola Gay at the museum close to me.

 

Of course. The exhibit's only meant to last a week. Then the tour goes to the city dump.

Nobody asked for your bus routes and conquests.