Astro-Porn of the Day: I think this would work....

[mckitterick]

Click the image to see the xkcd comic website.

...and I want to try.

Chris

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

In the comments on the LJ feed, people point out that's how we establish parallax to nearby stars.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's why I think this would work! Using a couple of web-cams and a smart-phone is a clever innovation.

(Though it would require more than a couple hundred feet for decent parallax.)

[carmy-w.livejournal.com]

I loved the detail on this cartoon, and the way he laid out the method....





and then I moused over it and saw the hidden punch line, or whatever it's called, and I LOLLED!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Me too! I always use xkcd during my tech-writing classes to show the fun one can have with the "title" attribute.

[normalcyispasse.livejournal.com]

This is cool! Way cool!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44273287/ns/technology_and_science-space/

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Whoah! Amazing!