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From Paul Tipler,.. Overheard two students talking about the night sky: Whats that over there? Its a star But its blinking All stars blink. Its bit of atmospheric interference like cloud between you and it But its moving It does look like its moving but thats your eyes playing tricks because there is no ground reference Oh. Its very bright for a star Atmosheric lensing can make objects look a lot bigger and nearer than they are It looks like there are two lights close together Again, thats just a trick of the eye, the two stars could be many light years apart and of vastly differing sizes, they just look right next to each other. Erm ok. This leads me to conclude two things: one of these students is polite and educated and the other one is dim and has never seen a Police Helicopter before...
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:59:30 +0000

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