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How Big is the Sun, Really?
Sky and Telescope ^
| 3/21/2012
| Kelly Beatty
Posted on 03/23/2012 1:29:41 AM PDT by U-238
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posted on
03/23/2012 1:29:43 AM PDT
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U-238
To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis
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posted on
03/23/2012 1:31:30 AM PDT
by
U-238
To: U-238
because of the turbulence induced by Earth's atmosphere... Earth's atmosphere? What can cause that? Must be Earth's Anthropomorphic Turbulence... or EAT! Only one way to deal with that... might take many Trillion$, but we gotta do it. Do we have consensus yet?
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posted on
03/23/2012 1:41:35 AM PDT
by
C210N
(Mitt "Severe Etch-a-Sketch" Romney is the front-runner? Seriously??)
To: U-238
"How Big is the Sun, Really?" That's an easy one:
It's about the size of a grapefruit...
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posted on
03/23/2012 1:50:09 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
To: Mad Dawgg
That kinda reminds me of my last prostate exam.
To: U-238
Even though the sun is so far away, it manages to have a major effect on our lives here at Earth. Within the next hour, it is going to appear once again on the eastern horizon here in New England - at least I hope it does, otherwise we are in for one hell of a dark, cold day here.
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posted on
03/23/2012 2:25:20 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(I am 52 days away from outliving Phil Hartman)
To: U-238
It is obvious to anyone who has seen a total solar eclipse (I did back in 1969) that the moon and sun are the same size. Which proves that because of our planet's greater mass, both bodies instead orbit the earth and all this nonsense since Copernicus has been a Leftist conspiracy designed to empower the Liberal Democrats in the government's regulation of gravity—and the enforcement arm will be called Earth Panels.
Vote Republican in November and you can kiss the ground goodbye.
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posted on
03/23/2012 3:08:17 AM PDT
by
Happy Rain
("Rick Santorum--Public Enemy #1 of Leftists, RINOs and the GOP Establishmnet.")
To: U-238
The sun is a big ball of hot gas - it does not have a sharply defined circumference and hence no precise diameter.
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posted on
03/23/2012 3:15:40 AM PDT
by
Moltke
(Always retaliate first.)
To: U-238
I’ve always wanted to know just how big the sun is. Within 0.1%.
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posted on
03/23/2012 3:53:56 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
Science starts at 1%.
That's why there is no Climate Science - those claiming to be "Climate Scientists" can't even predict the sign much less the magnitude.
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posted on
03/23/2012 4:27:41 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest a ball of hydrogen plasma 850,000 miles in diameter with a fusion reaction core converting tons of matter per second just might be larger factor in global warming than my SUV.
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posted on
03/23/2012 4:38:53 AM PDT
by
6SJ7
(Meh.)
To: 6SJ7
Nah, it's your CO2.
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posted on
03/23/2012 4:49:45 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: U-238
I tried to measure it a couple of times, but my tape measure kept melting.
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posted on
03/23/2012 6:10:10 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
You should have measured it from the dark side.
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posted on
03/23/2012 6:13:07 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(My doctor told me to curtail my Walpoling activities.)
To: U-238
What are they measuring it for, a tuxedo? Just leave a few extra inches in the waist and it’ll be fine.
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posted on
03/23/2012 6:15:01 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(My doctor told me to curtail my Walpoling activities.)
To: Happy Rain
It is obvious to anyone who has seen a total solar eclipse (I did back in 1969) that the moon and sun are the same size. I don't believe there was a total solar eclipse during 1969. Where did you see this? There was an annular eclipse in 1969, but seeing that would have led you to conclude that the sun is bigger than the moon!
(I've been in the path of totality twice, but the only total eclipse I actually saw was on March 7, 1970, on Nantucket Island.)
ML/NJ
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posted on
03/23/2012 6:42:37 AM PDT
by
ml/nj
To: ml/nj
“the only total eclipse I actually saw was on March 7, 1970, on Nantucket Island”
Did you fly your Lear Jet up there? Geez you’re vain.. You probably think this post is about you.
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posted on
03/23/2012 7:46:38 AM PDT
by
PilotDave
(No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!!)
To: PilotDave
To: U-238
They seem to be assuming that it has a constant diameter. Isn’t it possible that the sun’s diameter changes from time to time? As a great big ball of burning gas and plasma it might swell up and contract back again, if only a little, every now and then.
And why exactly do we need to know this with such precision? Are we buying it a new pair of pants?
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posted on
03/23/2012 8:03:46 AM PDT
by
Ramius
(Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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