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- Felinocentric force: the force that slowly pulls a cat towards the exact centre of a bed or sofa.
- Spherocavateal repulsion: why the f***cking ball won't go in the f***cking hole.
- Mammariandroptic force: the force responsible for men staring at women's breasts.
Oh, and my mother asked what the force was that kept me at the computer all day. I replied "that would be the electro-geek". 8^)
I stayed up all night so that I could get an early start to watch the Venus transit (Venus passing between the Earth and the Sun). It's cloudy in Edinburgh, so instead of going to the observatory on Carlton Hill, I'm sitting at my computer monitoring webcam broadcasts from around the world. (Trondheim, Norway is quite impressive).
In a way it's remarkable. Captain Cook sailed to Tahiti to observe the transit of 1769, and his results weren't available in Britain for months. Nowadays it's a couple of seconds away (web traffic permitting.)
While I do get a slight feeling of history watching the small black disc of Venus move across the face of the sun (reminding myself that this very event led to the first accurate measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun), I have to say that for an event that hasn't occured in 122 years, it is slightly dull...
In a way it's remarkable. Captain Cook sailed to Tahiti to observe the transit of 1769, and his results weren't available in Britain for months. Nowadays it's a couple of seconds away (web traffic permitting.)
While I do get a slight feeling of history watching the small black disc of Venus move across the face of the sun (reminding myself that this very event led to the first accurate measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun), I have to say that for an event that hasn't occured in 122 years, it is slightly dull...
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