Not one of you could even be bothered to ask "who is your mystery person?" and put us all out of this misery. Well the question and answer session is now over.
who is your mystery person?
*blink*
*winch jaw off space bar*
What?
AwwwwwwwwwWWww...
*misty light apertures*
YOU DO CARE! :):):):):):)
*beam kind raysof sunshineinto allthreadcorners*
:):):):):):)
SEEEE! It'snever toolate toturn an annietthread storminto a rainbow of... oh the yellow's going to have to go... it's doing something funny to my eyes...
My mystery person wasJohn Michell, born in 1724 in Eakring, Nottinghamshire, Englandto a clergyman father and a mother calledObedience. He was educated at Queen's College Cambridge and
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he was the first person known to propose the existence of black holes in publication,
though he called them DARK STARS y-e-e-e-s :) not dark stares :)
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... the first to suggest that earthquakes travel in waves, the first to explain how to manufacture artificial magnets, and the first to apply statistics to the study of the cosmos, recognizing that double stars were a product of mutual gravitation. He also invented an apparatus to measure the mass of the Earth....
...which were what all those numbers were about... *sniff* ...different measurements for the same thing... the approximate mass of the earth... *sigh*
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... but died before he could use it. His instrument passed into the hands of his lifelong friend Henry Cavendish, who first performed in 1798 the experiment now known as the Cavendish Experiment. He has beencalled both the father of seismology and the father of magnetometry.
He ended up doing most of his science work, and building reflecting telescopes that kind of stuff (one bought by Herschel after Michell's death) as a church rector - where he demonstrated a "wide latitude in religious belief" :)
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The American Physical Society (APS) has described Michell as being "so far ahead of his scientific contemporaries that his ideas languished in obscurity, until they were re-invented more than a century later." The APS states that while "he was one of the most brilliant and original scientists of his time, Michell remains virtually unknown today, in part because he did little to develop and promote his own path-breaking ideas.
So our thread winner is MAGIC!!!!! for delivering you all from the misery of my thread compering :)
Congratulations :)
Runner up is Bill :) ..........
so speaketh the wimp :)
Thank you for putting up with me everyone :)
EDIT: in case anyone's wondering, 180 was my pre-chosen cut-off number for a win - and that was Bill :)
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Did any of you follow my link to the nodding donkeys of Eakring? I think not. Would you have made the connection to this...
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the place of their birth seems to have forgotten about them... in favour of banging on about the National Grid and secret oil wells and stuff and some bloke or other who did things in the open air a lot
What link? I don't see a link in the post you linked to. Or did you mean link more in the sense of connection?
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21... which is incidentally one of the two days he died, poor thing.
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Wikipedia says he died on 29 April, 1793. It doesn't mention any other date.
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Not one of you could even be bothered to ask "who is your mystery person?" and put us all out of this misery.
Had I known it would be that easy... I probably still wouldn't have. It was too easy, left no work to do. (Not that I was doing any last week anyway, being on Spring Break and not paying attention to this place.)
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@David: yes... due to shirtgate and it's associated demons
Am I going to have to ration your apostrophes?
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you're right here...
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I can't help noticing that A: you did not actually stop there; and B: that you did not respond in the slightest to my deductions about your mystery person.
...when you said this...
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Ah hah. Someone born on Christmas day in either 1702, 1724, 1730, 1752, 1758, or 1780, and who also died in the 1700s.
...somewhere else. But what may I ask is 1730 doing in there? Is it a leap year... I think not.
And when did you previously say it was also a leap year? Anyway, that also lets out 1702 and 1758.
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But please... don't change the habits of this entire thread on the basis of anything I've said here... :)
Of course not.
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and I have to be up in less than three hours and still haven't been to bed. That valuable sleep time has been squandered here I will have all day tomorrow to regret. Thank you. It is greatly appreciated.
Glad to be of service!
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... after rereading the remainder of the thread, I find that there is not after all anything worth responding to so that I can break the rules by double posting, since the double posting rule is now meaningless due to the thread having been won.
So, I will just add "Congrats, Magic" and move on.
Congrats, Magic.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Windows...(suppresses gag
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Windows...(suppresses gag reflex)
Get your Mac on!
(Stirs pot, runs away to avoid incoming flames)
Phil
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
RE: RE: Not one of you
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*blink*
*winch jaw off space bar*
What?
AwwwwwwwwwWWww...
*misty light apertures*
YOU DO CARE! :) :) :) :) :) :)
*beam kind rays of sunshine into all thread corners*
:) :) :) :) :) :)
SEEEE! It's never too late to turn an anniet thread storm into a rainbow of... oh the yellow's going to have to go... it's doing something funny to my eyes...
My mystery person was John Michell, born in 1724 in Eakring, Nottinghamshire, England to a clergyman father and a mother called Obedience. He was educated at Queen's College Cambridge and
though he called them DARK STARS y-e-e-e-s :) not dark stares :)
...which were what all those numbers were about... *sniff* ...different measurements for the same thing... the approximate mass of the earth... *sigh*
He ended up doing most of his science work, and building reflecting telescopes that kind of stuff (one bought by Herschel after Michell's death) as a church rector - where he demonstrated a "wide latitude in religious belief" :)
So our thread winner is M A G I C !!!!! for delivering you all from the misery of my thread compering :)
Congratulations :)
Runner up is Bill :) ..........
so speaketh the wimp :)
Thank you for putting up with me everyone :)
EDIT: in case anyone's wondering, 180 was my pre-chosen cut-off number for a win - and that was Bill :)
Please wait here. Further instructions could pile up at any time. Thank you.
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RE: Runner up is Bill :)
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Darn !
Seven years of collage down the drain : (
Bill
SEE - I can't even spell
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SEE - I can't even spell college correctly : (
Bill
Oh, and we thought you were
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Oh, and we thought you were into dressing up!
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
I thought we had a thread
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I thought we had a thread winner, is Magic okay?
And Bill spelling is for kids, as adults we learn to misspell and still make ourselves understood. But still playing dress up is okay too!
Chris - What was that you
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Chris - What was that you were saying ?
Hehehehehehe well done that
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Hehehehehehe well done that man :-)
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: Did any of you follow
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What link? I don't see a link in the post you linked to. Or did you mean link more in the sense of connection?
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Wikipedia says he died on 29 April, 1793. It doesn't mention any other date.
Had I known it would be that easy... I probably still wouldn't have. It was too easy, left no work to do. (Not that I was doing any last week anyway, being on Spring Break and not paying attention to this place.)
Am I going to have to ration your apostrophes?
And when did you previously say it was also a leap year? Anyway, that also lets out 1702 and 1758.
Of course not.
Glad to be of service!
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... after rereading the remainder of the thread, I find that there is not after all anything worth responding to so that I can break the rules by double posting, since the double posting rule is now meaningless due to the thread having been won.
So, I will just add "Congrats, Magic" and move on.
Congrats, Magic.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.