01-05-2012, 11:55 AM
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Happy perihelion, everybody! 
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01-05-2012, 12:14 PM
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Here's a little brain teaser for you guys: How many times around its axle does the earth rotate in one year?
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01-05-2012, 01:40 PM
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36 6.25.
Just like how the moon makes a full rotation during it's orbit of earth. It's rotating and orbiting such that the same side is always facing inward, so in the earth-moon perspective there are no rotations. From outside, though, you can see that there is one full rotation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation
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06-20-2012, 10:23 AM
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Happy winter solstice ... to our southern hemisphere friends!
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06-20-2012, 01:00 PM
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...beats walking...
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...ghee, the day doesn't SEEM any longer than before, but it's all down-hill (daylight-wise) from here (ha,ha) til the Winter Solstice!
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06-21-2012, 12:06 AM
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It got up to 87°F today. Almost had to use A/C on my commute home...
Looking forward to next ski season...
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The presence of traffic is the single most complicating factor of hypermiling. I know what I'm going to do, it's contending with whatever the hell all these other people are going to do that makes things hard.
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06-21-2012, 06:18 AM
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It got up to 87°F today. Almost had to use A/C on my commute home...
Looking forward to next ski season...
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I wish it was 87 if the humidity was down, It was 90F here with 60% humidity, workin outside all day yesterday was tough
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06-21-2012, 07:34 AM
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Yay, it is mid summer festival once again and last night temperature was +6C (~43F), it has been so cold and wet that it feels autumn, maybe summer will not really start up at all this year.
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06-21-2012, 08:59 PM
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I finally got around to doing my spring cleaning. You should see my springs they shine!
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06-21-2012, 09:59 PM
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smokey - good one! Hadn't heard that before.
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