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Unfortunately, the other section of CH421 had a test block that overlapped with PY212's test block so I have to take the one with Tolan instead of Whitty (in hindsight maybe I could have found a way to make it work but at this point I'd have to totally rearrange my schedule). I've heard a lot of bad things about Tolan, mainly that he punished the entire class because a few students cheated last semester, and its almost impossible to get an A in his class. I don't know to what extent that is exaggeration if at all, but if anyone has been able to do well in Tolan's biochemistry class before I'd really appreciate any advice on how to do well in the class, what to study for tests etc.
So J Tolan who before had a tilt meter strapped to his telescope now has a real theodolite! And a nice one too!
And he went back to the viaduct and took some sightings to distant mountain peaks.
Here's his new video: https://youtu.be/Ob0XEDv_tl4
In short, while he totally messed up his spreadsheet the photo of the theodolite showed that he was actually getting perfectly accurate measurements of the globe as us globies know it!
Here's my comments on the video:
Wow, you measured the globe!
Your spreadsheet may have been confused, but just using the picture you provided at 3:31 which shows an angle of 269d 55m 07s (0.0813888888) degrees below eye-level) at 20 miles that would be 150 feet below eye-level.
So you're looking 150 feet down to see something that's 77 feet above your eye-level.
So we have missing height of 77+150=227 feet. The horizon dip for 20 miles is 266.75 feet, so that means the target appears 266.75-227=39.75 feet higher than we would expect on a globe.
Using standard refraction of 1 degree per 932 miles, we should see the target 39.5 feet higher than expected.
Error is 39.75-39.50=0.25 feet.
Dude, you measured the height of that mountain to within a quarter of a foot from 20 miles away! It matches the globe model and standard terrestrial atmospheric refraction perfectly!
I'm on ps4, I'm not a vampire or werewolf and I don't have a bounty. Everybody outside the Fort is fine with me. What can I do?
rewatching because of quarantine and just finished the last stand of the Tolans and thought: Why didn't they evacuate as many of them as possible to Earth.
I mean yes they want to fight but SG1 could have taken the civilians with them. Would also have been nice to get some Tolan scientist on the way. (Of course we would never use such a tragedy to our advantage)
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