Lonelygirl15

[mellie3204]

I had a wierd, wacky, long and convoluted connection I found to Parallax, and I can't get it out of my head. So at the risk of making a fool of myself, here it is (originally posted in the Religion section of the forum):

[iamcool]

who's decision was it to change it to parallax?
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[mellie3204]

Hmm... then I probably am seeing cosmic connections where someone just thought it sounded cool!

I will try to get more sleep before my next bour of 'research'


(Luv your current Avatar BTW tigerlilylynn!)
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[sparrow]

I thought it might even be a sly jab at us, and our view of this versus OpAphid's and even Tachyon.

We're viewing the same thing, but from different angles.

[Loki]

Tycho Brahe (pronounced: Teeco Bray) was a very famous astronomer in his day. He was also famous for his secretivity and his quick temper. He got into many duels because he would never let a point go. Ever. In one such duel he lost the bridge of his nose. It was replaced with a silver prosthetic.

Brahe was believed to have been killed by his young protogee, a man by the name of Johannes Keppler, by mercury poisoning. Keppler stole Brahe's notes and fled, using the notes to create his three Laws regarding planets' orbits. The notebook was eventually recovered (Keppler gave it back).

I swear every fact in here is true... I'm taking astronomy this semester, and my professor had an entire section of a lecture which he spent on Tycho Brahe and Johannes Keppler.

Neither of them really had much to do with parallax, per se, however the observations and astronomical laws which came from their research DID play a role in the large scale observation thereof.

Oh, and if anyone was interested, the formula for (stellar) parallax is: distance (in parsecs) = 1/parallax (in arcseconds)
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[tiltingwindward]

Sorry, just have to jump in here to correct some historical inaccuracies regarding the great Tycho Brahe (sorry Loki). Tycho actually had a brass nose, not a silver one. And the story of how he died is nowhere near as mundane as a simple poisoning over scientific legacies. Tycho was actually quite the womanizer, and would do almost anything in order to get a woman to go to bed with him. One evening, he was at a party, chatting up a lovely young woman. He had to go to the bathroom desperately, but he wanted the young woman more, so he kept chatting, and kept chatting...until his bladder burst, poisoning him and killing him within hours.

This is what I learned in my astronomy class about Tycho, who was my professor's favorite astronomer for exactly this reason. I swear to all the gods you can name, I am not making this up. However, it provides us with an important lesson: no matter much fun it is to chat, always obey the impules of Nature. I don't want anybody dying of a burst bladder.
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