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Ann wrote:I've been thinking of what was said about how high above the Earth that the ISS is orbiting - 350 kilometers. Is that possible? It sounds like nothing to me. I live in southern Sweden, in the city of Malmö, and I know that if I travel by car it takes me between three and four hours to go to the city of Göteborg, about 350 kilometers away. If you look at this map of Europe, you can see Sweden in the upper part of the map colored pink, and you can find the cities of Malmö and Göteborg along the west coast. Surely the height of ISS above sea level of the Earth must be more than the distance between Malmö and Göteborg?

Star*Hopper wrote:SO, when do we get to see the answer??

APOD Robot wrote: Home from Above

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon wrote:

Monument to Bacon at his burial place, St Michael's Church in St Albans

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Memorial to Francis Bacon, in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge

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<<Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount Saint Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He famously died of pneumonia contracted while studying the effects of freezing on the preservation of meat. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method and pioneer in the scientific revolution.

Bacon has been called the father of empiricism. His works established and popularized inductive methodologies for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method or simply, the scientific method. His demand for a planned procedure of investigating all things natural marked a new turn in the rhetorical and theoretical framework for science, much of which still surrounds conceptions of proper methodology today. His dedication probably led to his death, bringing him into a rare historical group of scientists who were killed by their own experiments.

On 9 April 1626 Bacon died while at Arundel mansion at Highgate outside London of pneumonia. An influential account of the circumstances of his death was given by John Aubrey. Aubrey's vivid account, which portrays Bacon as a martyr to experimental scientific method, had him journeying to Highgate through the snow with the King's physician when he is suddenly inspired by the possibility of using the snow to preserve meat:

"They were resolved they would try the experiment presently. They alighted out of the coach and went into
a poor woman's house at the bottom of Highgate hill, and bought a fowl, and made the woman exenterate it".

After stuffing the fowl with snow, Bacon contracted a fatal case of pneumonia. Some people, including Aubrey, consider these two contiguous, possibly coincidental events as related and causative of his death: "The Snow so chilled him that he immediately fell so extremely ill, that he could not return to his Lodging ... but went to the Earle of Arundel's house at Highgate, where they put him into ... a damp bed that had not been layn-in ... which gave him such a cold that in 2 or 3 days as I remember Mr Hobbes told me, he died of Suffocation.">>

Star*Hopper wrote:SO, when do we get to see the answer??

PlanetJoe wrote:I am guessing the Pacific Ocean. Above what other half-hemisphere would they see no visible land masses? Right? Am I right?