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Science is cool - Astronomers release the largest color image of the sky ever made
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Yeah, apparently there's debate...Originally posted by poopnut2 View PostRomer came up with a formula that HELPED other astromers determine the speed of light. If I remember right Romer thought it to be around 10x the speed of sound.
Either way, he's still talked about 300+ years later. That's more than anyone will be able to say about us
Buncha smart motherF'ers... grumble, grumble...That interpretation makes it possible to calculate the strict result of Rømer's observations: The ratio of the speed of light to the speed with which Earth orbits the sun, which is the ratio of the duration of a year devided by pi as compared to the 22 minutes
365·24·60⁄pi·22 ≈ 7,600.
In comparison the modern value is circa 299,792 km s-1⁄29.8 km s-1 ≈ 10,100.[7]
Rømer neither calculated this ratio, nor did he give a value for the speed of light. However, many others calculated a speed from his data
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For some reason, people don't trust wikipedia but supposedly anybody can put whatever they want on it...even though that's not true. It has to be cited info, approved by wikipedia...but look up "black death" on there. They didn't use science to try and find out the cause, or to cure the plague. They blamed supernatural forces and jews. Seriously.Originally posted by 32vfromhell View Postoh i dont know, i think practical things like surviving plague and working on the four-field crop system were a little bit more important to medieval science than looking up at stars."Any dog under 50lbs is a cat and cats are pointless." - Ron Swanson
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