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Flying Around in Circles

• May 01, 2008
• 14:49

  Banana radiation

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  I would just like to point out that the average banana emits about 1.2 million neutrinos per day due to the decay of radioactive potassium.
• 11:58

  Another first solo!

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  Congratulations to my student "B", who soloed yesterday. He did a great job, despite the fact that as I got out of the plane the wind shifted dramatically and started gusting.
  
  Now I only h
• 11:25

  The speed of sound in a vacuum

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  OK, this has turned into quite a subject to research. Here is what I've found.
  
  (Danforth 1997) definitely states that the speed of sound in the interstellar medium is ab
• 11:22

  Making my blood boil

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  Some people have told me they enjoy reading these little essays that I post in response to other students' questions on our class newsgroups, so I'll keep posting them. But they're behind cuts so eve