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Therblig
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14 Mar 2005, 7:01 pm

Today is our beloved Albert Einstein's brithday! Yippee!



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14 Mar 2005, 7:02 pm

Hehe, Happy birthday, Einstein!!



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14 Mar 2005, 7:03 pm

Let's celebrate by dropping bowling balls on matresses... to simulate gravity!

Beautyrest, beautyrest, bowling ball... gravity...



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14 Mar 2005, 7:39 pm

Happy Birthday Albert Einstein!

It's interesting to note that, coincidently, Albert Einstein was pretty good at math, and his birthday is on 3/14.

3.14 is the approximation of pi. :wink:


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14 Mar 2005, 10:18 pm

I know, isn't that awesome?

I love celebrating pi day!



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15 Mar 2005, 3:29 am

Hey! My father also was born on a 3/14!
Happy birthday to both.



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15 Mar 2005, 4:53 am

I like the 3/14 coincidence with Pi. I also like the fact that
3/14 was the 73rd day of 1879 and if you reverse 73 to get 37 and multiply them you get 2701. Add 27 to 1 and you get 28, a perfect number. Also, take the average of 73 and 37 and you get 55 and my wife was born in 1955.

So what? Well, Mary's grandfather, Edison Pettit, was a colleague of Einstein. They both have craters named on them on the moon and Mars. Mary has a photo of Einstein, visiting her grandparents at Mount Wilson Observatory where they were the first astronomers there. Einstein is standing next to a heliostat, a device which was used to measure the temperature of the sun and help prove some of his work. Pettit arranged the photo so that the reflection of Einstein's face on the heliostat revealed a tuft of hair on his ear. The tuft was the result of Albert's way of walking around, twirling his hair when deep in thought!

Another old photo from Mary's grandparents is autographed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, who hired the Petitts to tell them whena scene could be shot at night to include Mary Pickford's favorite star in the background. But I digress there :)

Happy birthday even if it's a day late, Einstein!

Jerry Newport



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15 Mar 2005, 2:24 pm

Happy Birthday Einstein...

Sorry, residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... but he thought the letter was a good idea... y'know...



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15 Mar 2005, 5:54 pm

Feste-Fenris wrote:
Happy Birthday Einstein...

Sorry, residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki... but he thought the letter was a good idea... y'know...


So you would rather have had Hiter or Tojo nuke us? Albert did us a favor and as for those two cities, it's called Karma. Nobody twisted Japan's arm and forced it to join the axis. They would have fought to the last man. The war would have dragged on for years more and millions more would have died.

Jerry Newport