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^on the plus side there's going to be no rain left in the sky by Saturday. Maybe if we all get there half an hour early and huff and puff for all we're worth from the hilltop we can blow all the clouds away leaving clear skies for the planet and alien space craft spotting. And if its really cloudy we'll have to resort to doing a longest skid contest in our socks on the shiny floors.
I've been listening to an old Surgeon remix this week which has a sample from Obledo 0.39, a trippy 1976 concept album on space and physics by Vangelis. In it there is a sample of a bloke wittering on with loads of stats about our little rock, such as:
maximum distance from the sun 94,537,000 miles
minimum distance form the sun 91,377,000 miles
mean distance form sun 92,957,200 miles
mean orbital velocity 66,000mph
orbital eccentricity 0.017
obliquity of the ecliptic 23 degrees 27 mins 8.26 seconds
mass 6,600 million million million tons
equatorial diameter 7927 miles
polar diameter 7900 miles
oblaqueness 1/298th
density 5.41
mean surface graviational accelation of the rotating earth 32.174ft per second per second
escape velocity 7 miles per second
Me posting that in no way assumes I know about any of these things, just that listening to it has been making me excited about this ride all week, bring on much wow.