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Telescope Types

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I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.
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I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length.
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Jumping Frog Radius

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Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.
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Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.
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8 hours ago
This comic and the alt text is actually funny in the "wait what? oh yes, it makes sense" way. Nice!
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Apples

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The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.
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The experimental math department's budget is under scrutiny for how much they've been spending on trains leaving Chicago at 9:00pm traveling at 45 mph.
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Fishing

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'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'
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'That's definitely above the catch-and-release size minimum for planetesimals.' 'I'm going to throw it back anyway.'
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Hyperacute Interdynamics

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Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.
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Our models fall apart where the three theories overlap; we're unable to predict what happens when a nanometer-sized squirrel eats a grapefruit with the mass of the sun.
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Chessboard Alignment

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Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
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Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
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