On 09/14/09 00:57, Stephen wrote:
> In 1965 the BBC launched a technology programme called Tomorrow's World. The BBC
> has just released archive footage.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8253236.stm
>
> And the archive.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8001.shtml?all=2&id=8001


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-- 
In an Astronomy class (toward an Astronomy major, not that gen-ed crap) 
the professor did not tell us we would have to remember constants, and 
he asked them as questions. They were short questions, and weren't worth 
a lot.

One of them was: What is the orbital period of Saturn? (2 pts/100)

I started thinking about Bode's law and the posibility I could calculate 
it from an approximate radius I would get from that law... if I could 
remember it. But when you expect a 72% to be an A on a test, you have 
bigger fish to fry.

Then I got it. It was right, it should work, and no one would have to be 
nailed to anything.

I wrote: One Saturn-Year

I didn't get credit for it. A couple years later a sophomore was telling 
me about this funny question he had in the same class. He showed it to 
me. It read:

What is the orbital period of Saturn? (Do not put one Saturn-Year)

I was so right that it had to be guarded against. Yet those were 2 
points I would never have.

(as told by SetupWeasel on Slashdot)

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