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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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I suppose it's time...7 hours ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style4 days ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
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- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
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- Quelle Surprise
- Got Power? Storm Season's Coming
- Would You Think It Odd
- The Media's Eye Chart
- "Militia" Arrests In Midwest
- What Lunatic Puts A Stellar Observatory Underground?
- Infernal Devices, A Novel Neglected
- Is It Weirdsday Already?
- Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Comic Strip?
- Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood
- Journalists
- Insight!
- "Dear Congressman Underhand"
- The Next "Right?"
- Window, Rooftops And Lines In The Sand
- Double-Plus Good
- Something Wonderful
- BlogMeet Photos
- Four Headlines
- On Nationalsocializing Also
- Nationalsocialized "Health Care"
- BlogMeet
- Two Plus Two Equals Five
- Big Day
- Maurice LaMarche, Even Kewler!
- Geekery, Punnery
- Gun Show Sociology
- Obscured
- Chiding Indians
- The Nation: Still Not Getting It
- Hammarlund?
- Friendly Tip
- I Am Joe's Slinky-Cat's News Paper
- Guards? Guards?
- Missing The Phrase And Not Figuring The Speech
- Overheard On Teh Tooooobe
- Emperor Brainard
- Coincidence? Not!
- Monday Uplift
- March BlogMeet
- Elephant Hatchery
- Vision! Vision?
- This Just In
- New Content At Retrotechnologist
- What Goes Around Comes Home To Roost
- A Thing Mr. Obama Won't Do, Plus Zen Politics
- Otta Post Something
- Clean Workbench!
- Neo-Victoriana
- Speaking Of Underground
- Friday Breakfast
- Post Soon
- Tommy Cat Update
- "Regulate" Means "Facilitate"
- Educational? Seems Apt
- Portrait Of A Day
- A Nation Government Of Paranoid Hobbits
- Oh, No
- Third Bicycle Expedition
- Oh, Yeah?
- Our Paper: Unbiased, Hard-Hitting
- Second Bike Ride Of The Year
- Felonchusetts
- V.A.C.A.T.I.O.N.
- More L. Neil Smith
- Found At The Br-dy Website
- GOP Wonks, Reporters: Getting It Wrong Again
- Steam Engines?
- The Indy (Red) Star Panics
- Guns In Your Car!
- Guns In Your Car
- Indy (Red) Star: Free Market Bad
- Leave Starbucks Aloooone!
- McDonald
- Lilly Exec Lies About Guns-In-Cars Bill
- Where Wookiees Come From
- This Just In
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"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
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--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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8 comments:
I would have loved to have seen that nose of his. He had a pet moose, too.
That was in advance of the nova
(Not the car)
Wait a minute... wasn't that from some James Bond film?
I think they have one of the noses in a museum. I'm sure he rotated them out.
You'd have a couple of them, and as one got dirty you'd wear another. You'd have a thin nose, for when you were being extra good, and a fat nose made out of spandex when you had too many barrels of lutefisk, or whatever.
WV: Somblogu. New japanese kink involving blogging and small, animated monsters.
The other people who bury observatories are the guys looking for neutrinos: Big tanks of heavy water way down in mineshafts.
AD - That was the Arecibo Observatory, trust me to know that.
Jim
And the solid foundation helped provide amazing levels of accuracy.
He made decades of observations without the use of a telescope, and provided data accurate to 15 arc-seconds. (That would be...1/240 of a degree, or 0.0041667 degrees...amazing.)
"had a controversy with another student over who was the best mathematican..." So that's how he got the prosthetic nose.
Whee! Geek fight! With real swords!
Brahe was what is called an observational astronomer meaning that he made and recorded countless, very precise observations of various celestial bodies over an extended period (many years). It was his data that provided the experimental basis for Kepler's Laws of planetary motion. Kepler's Laws in turn provide supporting evidence for Newton's Second Law, F = M a. Thus Brahe played a very fundamental role in the development of mechanics.
As to putting his observatory underground, the most likely reason that comes to mind is the more constant temperature. He had to make observations year round, and seasonal temperature variation at the latitude of Denmark would likely have thrown steel or brass instruments completely off simply because of temperature variation from summer to winter. There is also the matter of shelter from wind induced vibration which is also quite important.
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