Comments on: Student Questions: Farmersburg http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/ Take a weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos with Astronomy Cast. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:17:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: NightBird http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/comment-page-1/#comment-392 NightBird Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:01:41 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/#comment-392 The link to the .pdf transcript is wrong. This is the correct one: http://www.astronomycast.com/transcripts/AstroCast-080106-FarmersburgHS_transcript.pdf The link to the .pdf transcript is wrong. This is the correct one:
http://www.astronomycast.com/transcripts/AstroCast-080106-FarmersburgHS_transcript.pdf

]]> By: Iljitsch van Beijnum http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Iljitsch van Beijnum Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:04:12 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/#comment-177 Shame on you, Pamela... 40,000 degrees Celsius is NOT (approximately) a thousand times hotter than 35 degrees Celsius, because 0 degrees Celsius isn't the absense of any heat. 35C is 308 degrees above absolute zero, which makes 40,000 degrees C only about 130 times hotter than 35 degrees C. Then again, it only takes some 65 degrees to go from body temperature to hot enough to cause burns so 40,000 degrees is still pretty hot! Shame on you, Pamela…

40,000 degrees Celsius is NOT (approximately) a thousand times hotter than 35 degrees Celsius, because 0 degrees Celsius isn't the absense of any heat. 35C is 308 degrees above absolute zero, which makes 40,000 degrees C only about 130 times hotter than 35 degrees C.

Then again, it only takes some 65 degrees to go from body temperature to hot enough to cause burns so 40,000 degrees is still pretty hot!

]]> By: Kevin http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Kevin Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:49:54 +0000 http://www.astronomycast.com/listeners/student-questions/student-questions-farmersburg/#comment-175 good show, just one little niggle: faster than light: in a vacuum nothing can go faster than light but in water (and other stuff), light slows down. ÄŒerenkov radiation for example can go faster than light in water. good show, just one little niggle:
faster than light: in a vacuum nothing can go faster than light but in water (and other stuff), light slows down.
ÄŒerenkov radiation for example can go faster than light in water.

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