---- Original Message ----
From: "Heasman, David" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] :OT by now Evil Sun

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Brown [mailto:[log in to unmask]]

>> ....up to 50,000 degrees in 2 milliseconds. Which
>> is certainly more than 3 times as hot as the surface of the sun.
>> However, I bet it's hotter in the middle


>  I've not read further down from this note, but my fading memory
>  suggests that the surface of the sun is hotter than the centre.

Nope.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/sun/sunstructure.shtml

>  Not only do I not know why this is so, I also have no idea how
>  it can be determined. Useful, eh?

Even 7-12 year olds can know this.
http://www.smv.org/jims/unit.htm
But I can't :-(

 I guess you know you are getting old when the 'modern' learning techniques,
flashy presentation, and assumed (low) base knowledge of the target 7-12
year olds combine to actively *prevent* you finding out what you need to
know. And you long for an ordinary plain-text description in just a few
paragraphs....

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OE-QuoteFix 1.19.1 doing what it can to render the OExperience bearable.
Sig seps are fixed in the updated OE6, but they won't let me load it :-(

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