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#1 User is offline   syphrix 

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Posted 31 March 2010 - 03:45 PM

I Googled across some posts on these forums while searching for how to calculate distance to stars. I poked around enough to warrant creating an account. Don't mind me, though, I'll be quietly perusing in the background.

Oh, but I do have one question: What did the pear say to the knife?
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Posted 31 March 2010 - 04:45 PM

Hello syphrix,
Welcome to Hypography!! :daydreaming:
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Posted 31 March 2010 - 06:25 PM

Hi there and welcome!

syphrix said:

Oh, but I do have one question: What did the pear say to the knife?

No idea - let's hear it!
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Posted 01 April 2010 - 09:45 AM

Boerseun said:

Hi there and welcome!

No idea - let's hear it!


Thanks for halving me. :wink:
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Posted 01 April 2010 - 11:05 PM

syphrix said:

What did the pear say to the knife?...

Thanks for halving me...


"...But, you are not ah-pealing" :wink:

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Posted 02 April 2010 - 06:41 AM

syphrix said:

I Googled across some posts on these forums while searching for how to calculate distance to stars. ...

Hi there Syphrix,

I recently found an excellent short answer to your question over at a wonderful website called Straight Dope , managed by Cecil Adams, one of the smartest people in the world. So he says. And who am I to disagree?

Click the link and take a look.
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Posted 02 April 2010 - 12:18 PM

Pyrotex said:

Hi there Syphrix,

I recently found an excellent short answer to your question over at a wonderful website called Straight Dope , managed by Cecil Adams, one of the smartest people in the world. So he says. And who am I to disagree?
Pyro


Wonderful! That's exactly the type of condensed response I was searching for! What's funny is that I kept finding articles about using Parallax but I didn't know how scientists measured the distance to the closer object of reference. Thanks a ton!

@modest - No, I've never been much of a pealing fellow -- My mother never showed me how; she's a good woman, though. As for the joke, I sadly cannot claim credit for it. A friend of mine told me that one a while back.
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