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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
I can see in 3D at last! 
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
*hands over another mhCHUD to Joe*
cool
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
I like it 
Plus they colourchange
Thanks for the mhCHUD!
Is it going to appear in the menu?
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Sometime... sooon.... but I'm like Aslan from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - I call all times soon...
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
Oh dear... astronomer again
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Yep. Some time in the next billion years or so...
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
Worse than a geophys for time scales. At least you don't stare at squiggly lines and see logic in them
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
but I get to consider an error of 50% perfectly reasonable...
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
An error of 0% is considered a bit sloppy for me
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Well quite
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
How can an error of 50% be reasonable?
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Because its astronomy - well, cosmology to be precise...
Trust me you'd know if you'd done the practical...
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
Oh yeah... you think 3 orders of magnitude out is a good figure
Maths has to be spot on
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Three orders of magnitude is a bit excessive...
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
Ok... A factor of 2
Say 4 billion and 2 billion...
I agree 1000 time is a bit wild but I don't put anything past the over generalising cunning of the cosmologist
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Well, we have to work with data from the most distant galaxies...trouble is uncertainty grows the further you try to measure away...
...we didn't want to be like this... its 'cuz of nature...
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
You measure something once and pretend it is ALWAYS true though
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
like what??
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Joe aka Arnia, Muse, Keeper, MathEd, Guru and Zen Cook (business is booming) Posted Aug 24, 2000
*shrugs*
You see an X ray source and come to the conclusion that all X ray sources are the same for example.
As the old joke goes, "An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician were on the train up to Scotland..."
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J'au-æmne Posted Aug 24, 2000
Don't start that again. IT should be engineer not astronomer; astronomers are physicists.
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