4 Science Questions (and a lecture)

[The Silence and I]

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The four questions are very simple ones, but apparently many educated people fail to answer them. The video is from a lecture, but the questions are at the beginning if you don't feel like watching the whole thing.

I answered all four, although the second took me a few seconds. I expect good scores from this board, as we are a group of fairly bright people.

Begin!

[Charon]

I kinda got three of the four.

First one was no problem.

Second one I was iffy on until he gave it away himself.

Third one was again no problem (helped by the fact that I am taking Weather & Climate and we just went over that last class).

Fourth one I got wrong by virtue of I'd have put slight ellipses into the orbits though they'd have still been mostly circular.

So yeah, three out of four.

[The Silence and I]

I kinda got three of the four.

First one was no problem.

Second one I was iffy on until he gave it away himself.

Third one was again no problem (helped by the fact that I am taking Weather & Climate and we just went over that last class).

Fourth one I got wrong by virtue of I'd have put slight ellipses into the orbits though they'd have still been mostly circular.

So yeah, three out of four.

To be fair to you they ARE slightly elliptical, else we could not be closer to the sun in winter than in summer. Pluto, if we are calling it a planet, has the most elliptical orbit, so much so that every so often it swings inside Neptune's orbital path but all have a slight deviation from perfectly circular. Mind you, a circle is very close.

[Comrade Tortoise]

proud to say... i got all of them right

[Shark Bait]

*trys to watch sound card crackles* oh right sound card broken


the dugler wants to come too......