Posted on 04/22/2014 7:48:56 AM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
Pretty horrifying example, but very believable. Years ago I gave a small star party for the neighbors because of an unusual plantetary lineup at dusk where you could see five planets lined up from the horizon, including Mercury. One woman looked through the scope at Saturn and remarked that it was pretty, and asked what it was. I told her that that was Saturn, the planet with the rings. She looked me straight in the eye and said, “It really has actual rings? I thought that was a marketing thing.”
I remember that, but haven’t thought about it in a light year. /s
I was referring to the celluloid version, 2001, which Clark was involved with in production.
Well dah!Should only be one. That one is known as the Sun..
My flip, off-the-cuff reply was "millions". Then I re-read what you were asking. "One", of course.
But the guy who didn't know that the sun was a star.....shudder. He votes. And drives.
This article is about the narrative. For the film, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (film). For the novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel).
2001: A Space Odyssey is a science-fiction narrative, produced in 1968 as both a novel, written by Arthur C. Clarke, and a film, directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is a part of Clarke's Space Odyssey series. Both the novel and the film are partially based on Clarke's short story "The Sentinel", written in 1948 as an entry in a BBC short story competition, and "Encounter in the Dawn", published in 1953 in the magazine Amazing Stories.
One BTU is the heat required to raise one pound of water by one degree F, or about one quarter of a dietary Calorie. (about half the water by about half the temperature change)
Also there are slight changes based on what you use as the base temperature because water does not require exactly the same heat to change by one degree at different temperatures.
True answer.
/johnny
Clarke was, among other things, a good businessman.
I always ask when was the Civil War, WWI, WWII.
The answers will BLOW YOUR MIND...
BTW, I am a “junior astronomer,” and really know quite a bit about the subject, and when I saw your question, the number “billions” popped in my head. Don’t know why I was thinking galaxy instead of solar system.
My mother still tells the story of her precocious second grader informing the teacher that the sun is a star.
Cynthia McKinney ping?
Indeed! And I agree with him that those ‘things’ on Mars look just like Banyon trees. But then my ToE (Theory of Everything) is not the same as that of modern science consensus. I have a different way of explaining dimension Time.
-- The folks at parties might know that one pound of fat equals about 3,500 Calories! --
I like to amaze my friends with the question about which has more energy, a pound of chocolate chip cookies, or a pound of dynamite?
Crap, I’m an engineer, and I can’t quote that conversion offhand... (252 calories = 1 BTU)
But do they know who’s on ‘Dancing with the stars?’
Or who K.K. boinking?
That’s what matters, right?
‘is’ boinking?
Sorry.
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