That is cool! After I saw the tour I played with the controls! |
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Just stumbled upon This and thought it was interesting. |
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That is cool! After I saw the tour I played with the controls! |
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Uh... which Greeks? |
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Well, plus we didn't even have most of the information above; that thing's two dimensional. When we watch lights cross the sky they only move in one dimension, in a line. We can't tell if they are close or faraway. |
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So can we not tell, in any way, if they are at their closest point, or the furthest point in their own own orbit? They don't appear lighter, or more dull? Or their size never changes, in our point of view? Say, if Jupiter was at its closest point to us, it would look the same if it was waaaaaay out at like 100 degrees (in its own orbit. I know 180 would probably be completely blocked by the sun, yes?) or would we just not see it, that far out, because it would be shrouded by the daytime atmosphere? |
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Well clearly we easily have the technology today to do it, but have you ever noticed that Jupiter is 20% brighter than normal..? Probably not; bear in mind that Jupiter's distance from us doesn't vary by a huge amount. How would you go about objectively measuring it, plus taking into account cloud cover etc.? Only a few hundreds of years ago people didn't even have telescopes. |
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neptune has the coolest perspective. All of the other planets are clustered around the sun. And then pluto comes from out of nowhere and almost smacks into it. |
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Previously PhilosopherStoned
Last edited by khh; 10-18-2009 at 03:39 PM. Reason: typo
April Ryan is my friend,
Every sorrow she can mend.
When i visit her dark realm,
Does it simply overwhelm.
The Greeks did many brilliant things but a heliocentric model of the solar system wasn't one of them. |
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Erotosthenes of ancient Greece deduced the circumference of the Earth in 200 BC. |
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Sure takes a long time to convince the world of truth.. |
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This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
I think it may only seem that way through the lens of modern Western society. We tend to date discoveries back to the people who were inspired by the texts of the Greeks which reentered Europe a few hundred years back. The Greeks themselves probably didn't ignore it. |
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This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
Who's 'we'? |
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This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
My point is really that there was never a 'Dark Age' for mankind. It has been a relatively steady progression. So questions like 'where would we be if there hadn't been a Dark Age'... who knows, perhaps we'd be even further back. The Arabs brought to light some extremely important stuff for science and mathematics (starting with our number system...). |
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Yes but the majority of the progress we saw in the 20th, 19th, 18th etc.. century was caused by European descendants, even the non-progressive movements were mostly caused by European descendants... I don't doubt the intelligence and accomplishments of the Arabs but they didn't proliferate theirs as widely nor did they accomplish the same technological feats.. My point was, the "dark ages" happened for Europe, and surrounding areas.. Where their was a stunt in technology growth especially compared to the Romans/Greeks(sure their were a few inventions... I forgot exactly..) but generally the population was poor, uneducated, didn't shower... sawed peoples legs off to fix everything, leeched everything.. My point was... if European culture didn't experience such a dramatic shift from the Roman Empire of glory to what was the shambles of the middle ages in Europe... Who knows how much information was lost and never recovered, or recovered thousands of years later? And who knows how many great minds went to waste. |
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This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
The Romans were facist pigs who didn't contribute one iota to the wisdom of mankind. |
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The Romans have a multitude of problems, violence and a thirst for conquer for one.. but I would hardly say they didn't contribute one iota to the wisdom of mankind. I feel them more akin to the American population. (We've contributed much good and much evil to this world) |
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Last edited by DeathCell; 10-21-2009 at 03:44 PM.
This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway.
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