Long term Solar variability?

I'll take your word for it, hh.

Sister of famous musician.....?

Sister of idiosyncratic percussionist...!

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Not the phenomenon I was thinking about.
There was a nice example in september last year.

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Interactions of the solar wind and the magnetosphere (see accompanying hand-waving)?

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Now I would have called that an earth phenomenon

A transient phenomenon.

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Is that another hint?

CME's? They're transient.

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Ding!

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Aha! Joan Hirshberg (maiden name). I had forgotten Feynman played drums. [I play a little guitar. Hmmm...would drums help? ]

Nice going, Mike.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Joan Hirshberg, maiden name Feynman, as far as I know you got them switched

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Oooh, you did say sister. That makes more sense.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

I was going to say either sunspots or CME's. Guessed right.

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Wildroot cream oil, a "hair tonic".

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

It keeps your hair in trim, George. With soothing lanolin.

Over to you.

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If it grows hair, I'll try - burning and vaccuuming if necessary.

Hope you don't mind a little easy math...

Some Booleans, legendary logicians from a remote island, must determine, with great accuracy, the new length of their damaged spaceship. This ship’s exterior reflects light in the same direction from which it came (i.e. small prisms similar to the Apollo placed lunar mirror that McDonald’s Observatory hits with their laser routinely). The Boolean’s have a powerful laser system that is taken to a remote small island. After installing the “No Anthropologist Allowed” sign, they set-up and start tracking the ship. They are able to align to the tip of the nose of the ship due to a transmitter at this location. It is a cloudless day.

Given:
The ship is traveling at 15 km/sec. and perpendicular to them.
The ship is 1000 km distance.
The ship is 100 meters in actual length (after damage has occured).
c = 300,000 km/sec

Required:
Will they see the reflected laser beam?

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Here is a hint. The thread addresses the only minor subtle trick in the question. Don't get hung up with the Boolean folks as I ended-up rushing the question so I could go out of town; the Booleans were not used as I had originally intended. [My hope was to ask what color they would observe, but it would have been hard to structure it nicely with so little time.]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

If the laser beam is reflected in the same direction from which it came, it will return to the point of transmission ... so, yes, they will see the reflected beam.

What am I missing here?

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You are either correct or incorrect. What does your math say?

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Hmmmm...School is out, so I now realize that this is math aversion month; shame on me.

The solution is is really straight forward, forget all the fluff.

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"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.