[Magdalen] Philae has landed!

[Jon Egger]

What I'm wondering is the time issues involved.  Surely the landing isn't
"live" as in happening right now, given the distance the signals must
travel to Earth to receive them.  Yes, the probe landed there, but how long
ago given the time constraints.

Does that make any sense?

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> In a message dated 11/12/2014 6:05:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
>
> Basically that's why I didn't become an astronomer....too damn much  math.
> OTOH, if I'd had decent math teachers in high school, I might  have
> continued, but my algebra teacher freshman year would bore the
> [essentials]
> off a brass monkey, and my geometry teacher the next year  couldn't teach a
> two year old to open and close a door....so I couldn't  wait to get out of
> there.>>>
>
> It is one of the great enigmas for me that I whizzed through high  school
> algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, then set the curve in two  semesters
> of calculus, but then hated college physics, and had to work hard to  get
> through it with at least decent grades to keep up my grade-point for
> entering medical school (It was 3.85 and the year I was accepted to
> medical school the cut-off was 3.7).
>
> After all, physics is just applied math, but my brain didn't function  that
> way.
>
> Then again, there was the strange situation never before encountered
> by me, which was that my college math instructor, a graduate student
> Jewish girl from Brooklyn, was hitting on me (romantically).  My  friends
> began to refer to us as "Dave and Joannie".  I somehow got away  from
> that before anything happened.
>
>
> David Strang.
>