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From: Alexandre Eremenko (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 28 2004 - 14:43:27 EDT
Frank
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Frank Reed wrote:
> Ahem. Have you forgotten the Moon??
> It's not a dark, starry night if the Moon
> is out! Especially right close to it.
Yes, sure, I have forgotten.
Moon light indeed obscures the stars nearby
very much.
So probably only the dark edge of the Moon can be used
for occultation observations.
> But what are we doing
> here? Connecting with history or connecting with alternative histories?
I don't know. Probably both. I find it interesting to
speculate on alternative histories sometimes.
Or as they are called sometimes "lost opportunities".
I find it interesting to think, for example on
"Why Columbus was so poor in Cel Nav?"
Or: "Why the development of Exact Sciences was suddenly arrseted
somewhere in the 1-2 cent BC? And then again in 3-4 cent AD?"
Can this happen again?
> Incidentally, my site was not down, not for more than
> 90 seconds in any case, at any time in the past several weeks.
Let me give more detail:
The site was not down: I could reload it, and it did reload.
But the calculator was down: it simply did not calculate for
few minutes. Don't know how long, but definitely more than 90 sec.
(I don't know, this might be some problem with connection
between).
Alex.
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