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Posts Made By: Darian Rachal

November 28, 2006 03:50 PM Forum: Religion

Koran in "Swearing" In ceremony?

Posted By Darian Rachal
According to the article, Keith Ellison D.-Minn. doesn't want to use the Bible in his swearing in ceremony for Congress, but wants to use the Koran. The writer of the article disagrees. Ellison is a Muslim/Moslem(what's the difference?).

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/america_not_keith_ellison_deci.html

November 30, 2006 04:06 PM Forum: Religion

Re: The most wonderful time of the year

Posted By Darian Rachal
The trick is to not get all caught up in the commercial hoopla. grin

November 30, 2006 04:51 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Just Wondering: Green Lasers?

Posted By Darian Rachal
If a person is pointing a green laser at a certain spot in the sky and a telescope with low power is pointed to the same area, how does the laser beam look through the scope, or does it even show up? :S

December 7, 2006 01:16 AM Forum: Politics

Militant Islamists

Posted By Darian Rachal
I think this is an interesting article about the incident where a few Muslims caused some problems aboard US Airways.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009348

December 13, 2006 04:18 PM Forum: Meade

Rules of Evidence

Posted By Darian Rachal
Have any of you been following this thread over on s.a.a.? It's quite interesting to see what Star Instruments is claiming against Meade.

December 24, 2006 01:12 AM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Sky & Telescope Feb. 2007?

Posted By Darian Rachal
I received my Feb. '07 issue today, but I noticed on the cover the issue is printed as Nov. 2006. Does everyone's issue have this defect or is mine a rare issue(like the airplane upside down on the old US stamp)? 8O

January 4, 2007 06:10 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Interesting story

Posted By Darian Rachal
Any thoughts on what this might be?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070104/ap_on_fe_st/fallen_object

January 13, 2007 01:24 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

Paragon XHD tripod question

Posted By Darian Rachal
Does anyone know anything about the quality of this tripod and head that Orion shows in their catalog? It seems that it should have no trouble with a 6 lb. load.

January 27, 2007 09:46 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Am I Mistaken: Earth, Sun, and Mars?

Posted By Darian Rachal
This has been bothering me for a number of years. Maybe I'm really off base with this, but imagine Earth the size of 1 mm/diam. The sun would be about 100mm(4")/diam. At this scale wouldn't Earth be >100 meters from the sun? Mars(<1mm diam.) would be another 35 meters further out from Earth at closest opposition.

How could something collide with the <1mm speck, knock off a microscopic speck, the microscopic speck travels through space and hit the 1mm speck?

Then a person wandering around in Antartica finds it. Unless I am way off base(senile?), this is the scenario with the meteorite from Mars.

I used very crude calculations for visualization purposes. Am I mistaken?
The entire thing just seems farfetched to me. :S


March 2, 2007 02:35 AM Forum: Meade

Meade giving away scopes in Florida

Posted By Darian Rachal
Interesting article from the S&T site.

http://skytonight.com/news/wires?id=103707666&c=y smile

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