Re: Hi Brian!

BlagooBlanaa wrote:
it should be 71 Km/S per Megaparsec

Thanks for the correction. Incidentally, the abbreviations km and s are
not capitalized; neither is megaparsec, although its abbreviation, Mpc,
is.

because all scientific measurements should be quoted with
an estimate of the uncertainty.

that is 71 +- (5? 8? 12?) Km/S per Megaparsec

then you should quote a reference for the figure that
explains the method of derivation and reasoning behind
the error estimate

Since I'm not writing a scientific paper, I don't feel compelled to do
so. The point of the essay is not so much what the figure is, as much
as there is one--that there is (at least within a few billion light-
years) a linear relationship between distance and recession velocity.
But you should feel free to write a web critique explaining where such
figures come from.

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