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The Length of a Day
Spin in an office chair with your arms & legs sticking out, then pull your limbs in tight to spin faster. If you watched Vancouver’s Spring Olympics, you saw figure skaters slow down a spin by extending a leg, then … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, gravity, moment of inertia, not a disaster, orbital dynamics, rotation, tides
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More reasons to love Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Check out the clip titled “Earth Not Good for Life”. You can see why we had enough to chat about on set when filming “Brain Storm”.
Posted in Disasters, Stargate, Stargate: Atlantis
Tagged Brain Storm, Neil deGrasse Tyson, not a disaster, sga
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in ideas, friendship, and things that go bang in the dark
One of my cousins pulled me aside to interrogate me on CERN, particle physics, and why on earth people are making doomsday predictions. (In response to all doomsday predictions: Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth?) I need to … Continue reading