On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> At 02:02 PM 10/28/03 +0000, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> >Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> > >
> > > (...) leaving a gash (...) (for Alberto: 21 cm, or 1420 megaHertz)
> > >
> >Uh? Hertz is not a unit of distance
>
>
> I thought for sure *you* would recognize the specific source of
> electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength of 21 cm, which corresponds to
> a frequency of 1420 MHz . . .
>
>
> Anyone?
I got it immediately.
Then again, I repeatedly checked out a book on radio astronomy from my
school library when I was in 6th grade. :) I was going to be an
astronomer when I grew up that year. (My aspirations got a lot vaguer in
junior high -- at that point, I just knew I wanted to be *some* kind of
scientist or something. Didn't settle on mathematics until I was in high
school.)
Julia
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