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For those curious, after scrolling 6,771 more maps, that is approximately where you would expect to find Proxima Centauri.
However, there are actually some other points of interest along the way (between Pluto and Proxima Centauri), including Eris, 90377 Sedna and Voyager 1, to name a (non-exhaustive) few.
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That's not really correct. Even if we assume that this is no longer a hypothetical/counterfactual case, then the correct grammar is to use the present tense ("This is the moon as one pixel"). But, in this case, it still is counterfactual. This is really short for "If the moon were only [the size of] a single pixel", a statement which we know is not correct. You're probably confusing this with the rule surrounding ver…
Quoting from the Wikipedia page: Subjunctive forms of verbs are typically used to express various states of unreality such as wish, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or action that has not yet occurred. The action has occurred, it is not an unreality. It seems to me that using the subjunctive would be inappropriate. And yes, perhaps using the present tense would be more appropriate. Certainly I woul…
*were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood
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I've always used alt+scroll for horizontal scrolling. Edit: doesn't seem to work on the linked page
Yep it doesn't. So actually, on chrome, without an autoscroll extension, there is no way to scroll that page (apart from the with the right cursor button, which is way to slow to actually be valid) on a normal desktop pc. Happy new world.
Somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn, I had to resort to $(".essay").each(function(i){console.log($(this).text())}); to read the fun little text snippets. I like how it got fairly philosophical—everything eventually turns to philosophy if you are stranded out in space. Thanks for putting this together; it was a nice take on the perspective of our universe.
There's so much emptiness, it's only natural to eventually crave all the content. (Fits the writing too)
Once you scroll for a sufficient period, maybe a little button with the spoilers? :)
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I'm American, so I use imperial units in my everyday life. I'm also a (bio)chemist, so I do use metric units about as often as I do imperial units. While I might be slightly biased ("M" is molarity gosh dangit), I don't think I would confuse "M" for "meters (m)" simply because I use imperial units in my everyday life. I bring this up simply because I've seen a few comments over the past few days to the tone of "imper…
"Imperial" in USA is actually not the same as "imperial" in the UK. There are slight differences between all units, but a significant difference with volume. A US gallon and a UK gallon are different by about 25%. The US "imperial" vs UK "imerial" is why during WW2 the Allies (USA, UK, France etc.) used metric. Cause there's only one cenimeter. (Very important when you're making bullets)./
As I was scrolling through I started to notice a really nice, subtle star background pattern that wasn't moving. I thought that was a really nice touch. And then I touched my monitor and, turns out, it was just dust. There's a metaphor there but I have no idea what it is.
Are you kidding me? Sideways scroll with no way to use my scroll wheel? It's choppy and unreadable scrolling using the scrollbar, and using the right arrow is just too slow.
*were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood
I'm not a native speaker, but I had the impression this shift to "were" happens less in the UK than in the US. Is that so?
If I saw someone write "it is necessary that he goes" in a paper it would stick out as strange to me, likewise if I heard someone say "it is necessary that he go" it would sound overly formal and a bit stilted.
So really, you can use either and be understood perfectly well. It only seems to annoy prescriptivists, and I would say one has a moral obligation to annoy prescriptivists anyway.