I don't understand:

• why no one but me knew I didn't need to be in the meeting today that prevented me from finishing up my training UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE TO FINISH UP MY TRAINING
• cramps
• why I keep getting the soup from the caf, even though it always sucks

why I keep getting the soup from the caf, even though it always sucks

Hope springs eternal?

Or you are just really hungry and didn't bring your lunch.

I just discovered that a parsec is 3.262 light years. Where did the parsec (as a unit of measurement) come from? Why 3.262?

Or you are just really hungry and didn't bring your lunch.

Or there's never a line.

-t, are you able to refrain from saying beep?

So far. It gets harder every day.

Also:

parsec:

unit for expressing distances to stars and galaxies, used by professional astronomers. It represents the distance at which the radius of the Earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc; thus a star at a distance of one parsec would have a parallax of one second, and the distance of an object in parsecs is the reciprocal of its parallax in seconds of arc. For example, the nearest triple-star system, Alpha Centauri, has a parallax of 0.753 second of arc; hence, its distance from the Sun and the Earth is 1.33 parsec. One parsec equals 3.26 light-years, which is equivalent to 3.09 ´ 1013 km (1.92 ´ 1013 miles). In the Milky Way Galaxy, wherein the Earth is located, distances to remote stars are measured in terms of kiloparsecs (1 kiloparsec = 1,000 parsecs). The Sun is at a distance of 8.5 kiloparsecs from the centre of the Milky Way system. When dealing with other galaxies or clusters of galaxies, the convenient unit is the megaparsec (1 megaparsec = 1,000,000 parsecs). The distance to the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) is about 0.7 megaparsec. Some galaxies and quasars have likely distances on the order of about 3,000 megaparsecs, or 9,000,000,000 to 10,000,000,000 light-years.

parsec

I know this! I know this!

It's the distance at which an object has parallax of one arc second.

I don't understand why people have kept the 5 inch floppies for so long, and are jsut giving them to me to deal with now. I can't read them.

Parsec

Huh. In'eresting. Thanks.