Now I understand why going to Mars is such an expedition.
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If The Moon Was Only 1 Pixel
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#153*were http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood
No disrespect intended, but this is yet another example of the inverse correlation between grammatical knowledge and enthusiasm for pouncing on grammar mistakes.
In Standard English, this use of the subjunctive mood is optional, not required.
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#154I have previously wandered along the scale model of the solar system on the St Kilda beach in Melbourne. Yesterday I did the same with the scale model in Bonn. In both cases I only got as far as Uranus. It was interesting along the way to verify Kepler's relationship between the orbital period and the distance. Saturn takes about 30 years to go around, and is about 30^(2/3) ~ 10 times the distance. Jupiter takes abou…
There's a scale model of the solar system spread out over hundreds of kilometres across New South Wales, with the Sun at Siding Spring Observatory.
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#155*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?
Use of the subjunctive mood is slowly declining, especially in the UK. We often smooth out the difference by inserting a "should" or "might". E.g. "It's important that you (should) be on time."
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I speak British English and it's more a matter of register for me. If I'm writing something formal I'll use the subjunctive, if I'm talking to friends I'll just stick with the indicative. 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 us…
> one has a moral obligation to annoy prescriptivists anyway.
Challenge accepted! (See above.)
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#157Too much time was spent on this last night, but here it is http://jsfiddle.net/yrFK4/
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#158Now I understand why going to Mars is such an expedition. If real karma exists, the author deserves a good dose !
If you want to get an intuitive feel for the orbital mechanics I highly recommend Kerbal Space Program.
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#159Are 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.
It is actually far too fast, several times the speed of light. If you really wanted to realize how vast and empty space is, you should make it scroll slower.
But if you make it realistic - have you thought of the actual size of those letters?
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#160Are 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.
Annoying but I've just noticed there are icons to 'quick scroll'