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no access. he probably quotes someone doesn't he? how much would it cost me for access?
my university participates with them, but it'd be a lot of work I think to find what you're talking about.
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found a different source
William Henry Stanley Monck Ireland (Trinity College Dublin maybe - I've been there by the way!) 1892 http://www.science.ie/EN/index.cfm/s...ges/page/monck
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Close enough. There's a plaque on a building on Earlsfort Terrace (about a 10-minute walk from Trinity) which says that Monck made the first electrical measurements of starlight on these premises on 28 August 1892.
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There are other names for the Harvest moon that we had last night.
Legend has it that Texans during times when there were still battles against Mexico would leave their homes and head deep into Mexico. Around the full moon they would raid horses, guns, and other things from the locals. What is the name for the moon to those historical Texans? - oh, I'll check this in the morning, but I'm going to be away from the computer until Sunday after that. FYI.
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there you go. ![]() I think I mixed up some of the question, but you got it ![]()
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The first was Alan Shepard.
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No. 1: Mercury-Redstone 3, Alan Shepard inside "Freedom"
No. 10:Gemini 7, John Bormann and Percival Lovell No. 100: STS-71, Commander Robert L. Gibson, Pilot Charles J. Precourt, Mission Specialists Ellen S. Baker, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Gregory J. Harbaugh, inside Atlantis; it was the historic first Mir docking flight.
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Don't know, but it's not a lot - I counted 148 for NASA so far, so SpaceshipOne would be in the 140s if you counted them in. STS-107 really put a dent into the space program...
I guess it's my turn then. Let me think of something - after the weekend...
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http://www.space.com/news/060412_gagarin_45thanniv.html Dave Mitsky
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Thanks, I hadn't noticed that. I'd meant, "U.S." Arneb can go ahead, unless he meant next weekend. ![]() |
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Ra-hem...
"O.K., so why weren't there any larger clumps of dust on Spirit's/Oppy's solar panels during the last dust storm season? Just this homogenous sheet of dust? - Easy: the wind was so strong that it dissolved any clumps right away." [Forgive me if I paint in broad brushstrokes]. In my birth year, someone applied this kind of reasoning to solve a puzzle on a larger scale. The solution created, as any good science does, another puzzle which could only be solved in a way which seems uncomfortable to some here and for which good data were only found some decades later (Nobel, Nobel).
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No, Dave, that was just an attempt to lure George into the game...
![]() Well, for hints - We can say that the scale my analogy was applied to was big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely mind-bogglingly big the scale on which it was applied is. ![]()
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O.K., if you insist: What was the solution called? Sorry, I thought this would not be too hard to glean from the body of the riddle.
Hint: It was named after its discoverer.
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