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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080923.html
"Two moons walk single file into a bar... you'd think the second one would have noticed."
A spherical earth rotating this fast (period ~ 1h 25m) would tear itself apart by centrifugal force. Long before the catastrophic rotational rate of self destruction (period ~ 3h 50m), however, the earth would elongate into a prolate spheroid [like the large Kuiper belt object "Santa" (period ~ 3h 55m)].henk21cm wrote: Lets try to counterbalance the centrifugal force by the equitorial gravitational force.
ω² R = g ................................ (Eq. 1)
with g the acceleration of gravity. With ω = 2 π/T this leads with (1) to:
T ≅ 2 √ (R)
if we approximate π² by g. T is de axial rotation period of the earth. With R = 6.5E6 m, T ≅ 5100 s: 1h 25m.
This reads at grade level 12 and asks you to read 38 words. The first sentence mismatches a singluar noun with a plural verb. The second sentence links three clauses clumsily and omits a word. I've seen worse.APOD wrote:Haumea's smooth but oblong shape make it extremely unusual. Along one direction, Haumea is significantly longer than Pluto, while in another direction Haumea has an extent very similar to Pluto, while in the third direction is much smaller.
This reads at grade level 6 and only asks you to read 21 words that say as much as 38. It's easy to read, but I had no trouble reading the APOD description as originally written, either. The original is just not all that horrible; considering the low standards all over the internet and television, why pick on APOD? Nobody gives an Edwin Newman award in this forum, most astronomers don't keep Fowler on their bookshelves, and even Fowler ain't what it used to be.I wrote:Haumea is about as wide as Pluto but longer and less thick. Being both oblong and smooth makes Haumea extremely unusual.
saberard wrote:proofread their work ... Sloppy language ... sloppy thinking ... remedy this probelm
Maybe no misspellings by RJN, at least. You know, there's an "edit" button in this forum (if you're logged in) where you can correct your error. I generally scramble like mad to find and correct the errors in my posts before someone posts a reply and I get discovered as the imperfect first-pass proofreader I am. I live in a grass house and should therefore not stow thrones.saberard wrote:the problem was that the sentences made no grammatical sense, not that there were any misspellings.
Okay, sloppy language goes with sloppy thinking just as precise language goes with orderly thinking. But you can't hang a "disorderly thinking" tag on everyone whose writing comes up a little bit short, because it's still a few steps from orderly thinking to precise language.saberard wrote:Sloppy language bespeaks sloppy thinking.
Writing needs to practiced with good advice and examples at hand and specific goals in mind - you can't simply "remedy" the bad and expect the good to appear.saberard wrote:If anyone who reads this has influence over the writer(s), could he or she please try to remedy ...
you linked to wiki, but they DO have credits here:emc wrote:I couldn't find any reference to an artist except NASA. And my search in the NASA site lead to a dead end. I'm betting there was a lot of collaboration to create it.
It's a cool rendering deserving credit.
Description: An artist's impression of (136108) Haumea and moons
Source: [1]
Date: April 2006
Author: A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute)
---------------------------------------emc wrote:"Two moons walk single file into a bar... you'd think the second one would have noticed."
Thanks makc,makc wrote:you linked to wiki, but they DO have credits here:emc wrote:I couldn't find any reference to an artist except NASA. And my search in the NASA site lead to a dead end. I'm betting there was a lot of collaboration to create it.
It's a cool rendering deserving credit.
Description: An artist's impression of (136108) Haumea and moons
Source: [1]
Date: April 2006
Author: A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute)
I runned advanced searchmakc wrote:Author: A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Once again I think this is an issue with phpBB which is beyond the usual realm of those who use the canned phpBB software product to run their forum.bstout wrote:I tried editing out the '&qu' out of the title, but the system kept replacing the final double quote with '&qu'. Is there someplace to report bugs?
I suspect jesusfreak was providing a link to the original APOD and Pic, as a courtesy to future readers.bstout wrote:I confess I don't understand jesusfreak's and bystander's responses to my earlier post.
Thanks again makc for your good detective work! I emailed Ann asking her for a link to her website and she politely responded below...makc wrote:I runned advanced searchmakc wrote:Author: A. Feild (Space Telescope Science Institute)Her (!) full name is Ann Feild Didyk, she is Senior Graphic Designer at STSI (obviously). You could even find her phone and email here, as of Jul. 13, 2006.
That's what I thought too... I will ask.makc wrote:I think "Starcatcher" is her self-portrait.