[net.games.trivia] Trivial Pursuit Question

waltt@mako.UUCP (05/04/84)

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<a coke and fries and a line of text to go, please>

OK, let's get *REALLY* trivial.  This question popped up in a game
of "Trivial Pursuit".  I thought is was trivial enough to post:

  What was the name of Isaac Newton's dog?

Answer in a couple of weeks.

                        -- Walt Tucker

dougs@tekecs.UUCP (05/04/84)

[If you can read this you are too #%@$ close]

Forget Sir Isaac's dog; what was the name of Schroedinger's cat?


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rsg@cbscc.UUCP (Bob Garmise) (05/31/84)

One of the questions is: Which pole (N or S) gets the most daylight?
The answer is: the North Pole
My question is: Why don't they get an equal amount?
...bob garmise...at&t bell labs, columbus...

csc@watmath.UUCP (Computer Sci Club) (06/01/84)

The earth moves in an eliptical orbit, not a circular one. (although
the orbit is very close to circular). The earth is closest to the
sun, and hence moving fastest, in January.  The earth is farthest from
the sun, and hence moving most slowly in July.  Therefore winter in
the southern hemisphere lasts a bit longer than winter in the northern
hemisphere.  Thus the north pole gets a bit more sun than the south
pole.
                                                       William Hughes

markp@tekig1.UUCP (Mark Pease) (06/01/84)

[Say What!?!]

The north pole gets more sunlight, if my memory is correct, because 
the orbit of the Earth around the sun is not a circle but an ellipse.
The north pole points towards the Sun when the Earth is most distant
from the Sun. Now, we know, from Keppler (one of many spellings), that
a body in orbit will sweep out equle areas in equle time. By comparing
the areas in the Earths orbit, we should find that there is more area 
in the half of the orbit that is most distant from the sun and therefor
spends more time in that half of the orbit. 

Because the Earth spends more time away from the Sun, and the North Pole
also point more toward the Sun than the South Pole at this time, the 
North Pole gets more sunlight than the South Pole.

		 I hope that I'm correct.


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