Sat Jan 10, 2004, 12:03am
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
Where is everyone getting 186 000 m/s? The speed of light in a vacuum is just slightly under 3 x 10^8 m/s.
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186,000 miles per second, vs. 3 x 10^8 meters per second, maybe?
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Hey Mark, you didn't work on the Hubble, did ya? 
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Actually, that was the Pathfinder mission to Mars. Dynes + Newtons = big mess!
Don't tell Padgett this, but apparently the past 2 1/2 years of collegiate level science classes have metrified me. 
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Kids! 
We're using miles not meters.
Call it both ways !
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