Originally posted by sonhouse The "range" of radiation of the sun extends WAY past that distance.
It(radiation) is said to affect the orbital trajectory of comets in the
Oort cloud, which may extend a trillion miles.
I did a calculation of the energy hitting the earth from Sirius a few
years ago and found it amounted to over 13 MEGAwatts spread out
over the whole surface of the ...[text shortened]... s that power goes a long distance. 13 megawatts on the
earth from a distance of 8 Light Years.
considering all the esoteric arguments for and against the
aforementioned proposition I would say without equivication
you might be correct in that statement.
Originally posted by sonhouse you are on to something here. Think it through all the way though.
What other implications can be gleaned here?
I found a bunch.
Hmmm. In physics light waves from the sun are considered to be parallel, or as neear as damn it. is it the distrance from the sun that they actually converge at?
Originally posted by mac slayer New topic: Can't something be done about the name of this website - I mean, Redhot PAWN, honestly!!!
Now that we're off on random digressions in this thread...
Has Bowmann ever written a post with a line that reaches the end of screen, and wraps down to the next line? I don't believe so. Some of his posts consist of multiple lines, but they're the result of hitting 'enter'.