Re: Reason for Procession of the Equinox?

eawckyegcy_at_yahoo.com
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: 1 Dec 2004 16:31:37 -0800

brian@isi.edu (Brian Tung) wrote:

> > How can you possibly be "familiar" with nutation but _not_ precession?
>
> I'm sure what he means is that he is familiar with the term and what
> it denotes, but not what causes it.

That's one way of looking at it. But then again, if someone asked
you:

"I am familiar with cooking chickens, but how do you turn on a stove?"

You have to wonder what's going on.

Basically, he sounds like the typical attention-seeking "please hold
my hands" troll. He'd rather have strangers read web-pages to him
than read them himself.

> > ...Wikipedia is the next place you go if google is less
> > than enlightening? (Sometimes it's the first place to go.)
>
> I have to say, Wikipedia has proved surprisingly informative. (I mean
> surprising from the perspective that I didn't expect much of it when I
> first heard of it.)

Indeed: and it's getting better with time. If google spits out a
wikipedia hit, one is well advised to click it first. At the least
it'll provide more keywords to filter out the fluff...