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Radical Centrist
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11/20/2002: Sun spot
![]() What you have there is one of the best images of a sunspot ever recorded. It was taken on July 15 this year. The spot itself is described as "planet-sized" and this is just one part of it. When you look closely at it, there are a whole lot of spooky things in there. I took the large version of the image and just took out this shot of some dude's face: ![]() |
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That's Apollo.
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That 5000 Kilometers distance graph and the size of the sun spot reminded me that ...
according to Guinness World Records: Quote:
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There's something odd about those numbers. $2,030 in fuel to go 4376 miles? I don't know what gas costs in Canada, I'm sure it's taxed more heavily than it is in the U.S. But even figuring, say $2.50 US per gallon (which works out to about $3.75/gallon Canadian), that truck still only got about 5 miles per gallon. What kind of truck were they using anyway? Even semis get better mileage than that.
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Now, I may have done the math wrong, so somebody check me on this: Fuel Cost ($2030) / Price Per Gallon ($1.419) gives you 1430 gallons of fuel. Then, Miles Traveled (4367) / 1430 gallons of fuel should leave you with 3.05 mpg. |
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Bear in mind ... it was towing a solar vehicle.
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So then the solar car didn't actually make it all the way across Canada on it's own? I thought it said the support truck was merely "trailing" the solar car. In any case, all I can say is... I'm bored now. |
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I doubt that a support truck tailing a solar car is operating at it's most fuel-efficient speed.
Tailing isn't towing.
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Sure, but still, 3 miles per gallon? It just seems weird to me. But
- It doesn't matter. - There wasn't any real point to this other than I thought the numbers were weird. - I am even more bored with this topic now than I was before, if that's possible. |
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Well then they can't compare the figures, because nobody in their right mind would operate a truck that way.
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Tell me more about the sun spots.
That's an awesome image. Can we get wallpaper high-res? Anybody see any other stuff in that image? Edit Note: In the top right corner, I see a face looking upward and sticking his tongue out. :p Last edited by Nic Name; 11-20-2002 at 06:31 PM. |
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It's from Astronomy Pic of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021114.html If you click on the image there, you get the larger version. Further investigation of their links suggest that it really came from here http://www.solarphysics.kva.se/ Where they say you can use the images if you give credit to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. So here goes: "That Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, boy I gotta hand it to them. They really know how to teach that science. In a Swedish and royal way. I gotta give them credit." |
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WOW. Freakin' awesome wallpaper. I hope the wife doesn't throw a pail of water on the monitor!
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If you look more closely at UTs face capture you'll notice Apollo has his index finger laid up against his nose. The Gods, in their infinite boredom, are doing a stage production of The Sting.
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