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TheRev comments on Convincing ET of our rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheRev 11 January 2011 08:19:19PM 1 point [-]

Great link. It reminds me of my freshman astronomy lab which actually had us students calculate for instance the diameter and mass of the Earth and sun, and through the semester moved up to the level of using parallax and blackbody spectra to calculate distance to various stars.