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Buggered if I know...I'm a biochemist after all 
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Speaking of Erith:
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Its image is scattered across the entire field of view, rendering it invisible. This is because it's so much closer to the primary than the potential targets. At least, this is what my hastily-drawn ray diagram is telling me.Originally posted by reds4ever
here's a serious one then Prov, Krazy,
in a classical newtonian telescope, can you see the secondary mirror, when you look through the eyepiece? if not, why not? the light passes it?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Killing it is the new killing it
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Buggered if I know...I'm a biochemist after all
sorry, i had in in my head you were a physics PHD for some reason?Comment
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...got you thinking though eh? it's a bit a of a head wrecker isn't it?Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Its image is scattered across the entire field of view, rendering it invisible. This is because it's so much closer to the primary than the potential targets. At least, this is what my hastily-drawn ray diagram is telling me.Comment
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What are the little plastic thingies on the ends of my shoelaces called?<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures
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agletsOriginally posted by loinburger
What are the little plastic thingies on the ends of my shoelaces called?Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
"I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, FiraxisComment
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I actually know that, but I can't remember right now.
It might be "dag".
EDIT: IW's right.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Because it's comedy. I always remember it as well.Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
and hoopoes (Upupa epops)
Why do I know the latin name for the hoopoe?
Bugs - P G Wodehouse used the interesting fact that disgruntled appears to have no "positive" in Code of the Woosters. Bertie narrates, with respect to possibly Jeeves, but I fancy not (I can't find the actual quote right this minute):
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntledThe church is the only organisation that exists for the benefit of its non-members
Buy your very own 4-dimensional, non-orientable, 1-sided, zero-edged, zero-volume, genus 1 manifold immersed in 3-space!
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
"They offer us some, but we have no place to store a mullet." - Chegitz GuevaraComment
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How do you solve problems of "sin x + x = a" type.Comment
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Newtonian regression.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Dunno what that is, but I'd say Taylor expansion."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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No, because to get any degree of accuracy you'll need 5+ terms, leaving yous with a daunting polynomial.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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Newtonian regression: take a guess (X0). Make a better guess (X1) based on how close X0 got you and the slope at X0. Rinse, repeat as often as required.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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here's an easy one
prove that
x^n + y^n = z^n
has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2.
i do have a proof, but I can't be arsed to write it down hereComment
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