Re: inverse-square law through geometry

From: Davoud (star_at_sky.net)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:02:55 -0500

Brian Tung:
> >> http://astro.isi.edu/notes/gravity.pdf

Rod Mollise:
> > To each his own, and I'm glad you use your spare time in such a fashion.
> > Me? I just dug up my DVD of "Girls Gone Wild!" :-)

John Steinberg:
> It sure is purty. You can do some beautiful work with LaTeX, but as
> someone who continues to struggle with long division, I have no idea
> what it all means.

Oy! I am constantly surprised at how much we have in common--though you
are a bit ahead of me in the long-division front. Your post sent me to
the dictionary to find out what long division is.

Are you still in the USA? The Canada Immigration sites have been
overwhelmed, or so I read. I'm thinking summers in Québec and winters
on Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands.

The apparent end of 228 years of liberal democracy is profoundly sad;
that it would come eventually might have been expected by persons
smarter than me, but that it came so soon, and in my lifetime, was
coompletely unexpected. So much -- everything, actually -- in the way
of rationalism and critical thinking was completely lost on the Bush
voters. I have been asked if I find it ironic that we are fighting wars
against people just like us. "Not at all," I reply. There are many ways
of viewing history, and the view of recorded history as a series of
struggles between religious extremists is a valid as any other, IMO.

Sadly yours,

Davoud 

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