((This story is adapted from one told oleh an astronomy professor at Rowan universitas in Glassboro, New Jersey. It illustrates a basic rule of solar safety.
Please save your New Jersey jokes until the end.))
The astronomy professor had set the students a fairly simple task: observe sunspots. It was a bright sunny day, perfect for solar observation. The students had all assembled in the university's observatory, which housed a sixteen-inch telescope. The observatorium, observatory itself wa on the roof of the university's largest building.
While the students worked, the professor stood in the back, looking professor-y, which is very hard to do. Just then, he started feeling warm. Mind, it WAS a warm day, but not quite as warm as he felt.
"You're smoking!" one of the students shouted.
"No, no, I quit smoking years ago," the professor replied calmly.
"No, I mean you're literally smoking!" The professor, shocked to hear that, put his hand to his head. His hair was burning under his hand.
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As it turned out, several unlucky circumstances came together that day. The telescope itself was properly lined up for the experiment, but something rather unfortunate had happened to it.
Sometime between the aligning of the telescope and the class period, someone had knocked the cover off the finderscope on the telescope. Then, when class actually started, the professor had stood in just the right place for the light coming through the finderscope to light his hair on fire.
To this day, the professor tells this story. He calls it his "Catching Fire" story. Clearly, it illustrates a fundamental rule of solar observation: Never stand where light can set anda on fire. And the moral of the story is simple: Astronomers have a goid sense of humor.
Please save your New Jersey jokes until the end.))
The astronomy professor had set the students a fairly simple task: observe sunspots. It was a bright sunny day, perfect for solar observation. The students had all assembled in the university's observatory, which housed a sixteen-inch telescope. The observatorium, observatory itself wa on the roof of the university's largest building.
While the students worked, the professor stood in the back, looking professor-y, which is very hard to do. Just then, he started feeling warm. Mind, it WAS a warm day, but not quite as warm as he felt.
"You're smoking!" one of the students shouted.
"No, no, I quit smoking years ago," the professor replied calmly.
"No, I mean you're literally smoking!" The professor, shocked to hear that, put his hand to his head. His hair was burning under his hand.
***
As it turned out, several unlucky circumstances came together that day. The telescope itself was properly lined up for the experiment, but something rather unfortunate had happened to it.
Sometime between the aligning of the telescope and the class period, someone had knocked the cover off the finderscope on the telescope. Then, when class actually started, the professor had stood in just the right place for the light coming through the finderscope to light his hair on fire.
To this day, the professor tells this story. He calls it his "Catching Fire" story. Clearly, it illustrates a fundamental rule of solar observation: Never stand where light can set anda on fire. And the moral of the story is simple: Astronomers have a goid sense of humor.
The rules are simple. Just read the picture (below) and komentar the results. If anda don't have a Ipod, anda can use radios, Spotify, CDs, and anda can look them up. Remember, don't lie. Here's mine:
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I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go
When the lights go out
Life's been so good to me
This is someone else's story
Over time I've come to feel
With sadness in my jantung and joy in my mind
This is not the first time anda tried to get away
Born for trouble, poised for action
binatang came from miles around
Everyone says sooner atau later you'll reach the end of the line
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I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go
When the lights go out
Life's been so good to me
This is someone else's story
Over time I've come to feel
With sadness in my jantung and joy in my mind
This is not the first time anda tried to get away
Born for trouble, poised for action
binatang came from miles around
Everyone says sooner atau later you'll reach the end of the line