Archive for the ‘Distance’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
With gas prices going through the roof, many people have contemplated buying a new car, particularly a gas/electric hybrid, to drastically improve their gas mileage and lower their gas bill. But are the savings people are getting really all they're cracked up to be?
Don't get me wrong. I'm ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Previously I discussed a letter from reader Scott about parts per billion, and we had plenty of fun discovering that the allowable level of lead in drinking water was equal to about a shot glass in an olympic size pool. But reader Scott had brought up parts per billion ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Check out that snazzy new calculator to your left, baby. Sleek, stylish, and oh-so embeddable. Embeddable? Yes, I've set it up on the new calculators page so there's a small block of code underneath each calculator, easy to copy and paste into your blog or web site ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Recently in my travels, I was alerted to the upcoming Space Elevator Conference happening in Redmond, Washington in July with Microsoft as a major sponsor. Of course, the moment I read "space elevator," being a proud member of generation X, the theme for "The Great Space Coaster" started going ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
One of the things that inspired me to create this blog was a blog post about CafePress where I expressed unhappiness about how much time a new policy of theirs would cost their shopkeepers. I came up with a figure of 25,000 hours, then did some Rough Equivalents. ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
It's a very long distance around our planet, very long indeed. With a diameter of approximately 8,000 miles we multiply by Pi (3.14159) to get the circumference (distance around) and come up with roughly 25,132 miles around.
If you believe Wikipedia's facts about Earth, it's 25,046.5 miles. ...
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