At 02:58 PM 7/17/99 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't gripe about Daylight savings time. A truly inspired dialist would
invent a dial that would work with either.
This is not an inspirational invention but a practical technique. One way
to show both ST and DST is to mark the numbers for
Mike Cowham wrote:
Dear Friends,
I have a vertical east declining sundial that I believe was once
fixed to a church building. Its gnomon is missing.
What I wish to calculate is the latitude of the dial, and its
declination. I am sure that it is a very easy problem to
-Messaggio Originale-
Da: The Shaws
A: Mailinglist Sundial
Data invio: domenica 18 luglio 1999 15.48
Oggetto: Design at its worst
I was down in my local garden centre yesterday, and saw THE most
ridiculous attempt at a sundial I have EVER seen in my life...
Hello dialists,
I read Marilyn Vos Savant's (the person with the highest measured IQ) column
this morning, and found an interesting question and response which I'm not
sure is correct.
To paraphrase: The question was, Over the span of a year do all places on
earth recieve on average exactly
John Bercovitz wrote:
What have I proven? The jet reaction is real, and measures
as predicted, but seems to have nothing to do with the Moss
effect. The Moss effect must depend on the configuration of
the spray coming out of the nozzle. Also shown was that in
this case, the flow around the
