Re: Laser ranging to moon begs questions

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:21:21 +1000, "Peter Webb"
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"John C. Polasek" <jpolasek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:54:16 +1000, "Peter Webb"
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I'm trying to help here. It's not unreasonable to wait 10,000 samples
and thus cope with the paucity of information. There's no doubt that
something like that does happen, but we just don't have a verbato,
recital.


As there is no doubt this is true, exactly why do you want a "verbato
recital"?

Why is this different to the dozens of other things that are "no doubt
true"
(such as the requirement for sub nanosecond accuracy in the atomic clocks)
but which aren't spelled out "verbato" ?

And where do you want it recited verbato? Will here do? If it will ...

"They have to use the data from thousands of samples to achieve the
required
degree of accuracy".

There you go. Its undoubtedly true, and now you have a "verbato recital"
as
well.

HTH


Peter Webb

Well, you're right again. It's verbatim. But I only spelled it wrong
once, and you did it 5 times. And remember, I type very fast.
By verbatim recital, I meant an eyewitness recitation as to how this
data was treated.

I wasn't taking the piss. I didn't know what you meant.

That must local jargon, very local. Why would you clip out my
informatonal comment and save all the persiflage?

But if you mean that you are hoping that somebody who actually works at one
of these facilities reads this ng, you are probably out of luck.

No, an informational paper with the details. In the Pioneer program
there were all kinds of diagrams, and remarks that some data batches
were 5 days long.

You could
just phone one of the observatories or visit one in person; I am sure that
they would be tickled to have somebody display an interest in what they do,
and would be very helpful.

Actually, one of the OP's on this thread, who earlier was quite
voluble in the opinion that processing single photons was a "piece of
cake", who should be able to shed light. I thought it would be
interesting to hear more. At least we're still on topic, "begging the
question".
John Polasek
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