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Re: ? ? ? Question on Lunars
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 28, 13:43 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 28, 13:43 -0500
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.