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at my university, the students nicknamed the computer science 101 class “emails for females” and the astronomy 101 class “rocks for jocks,” the latter of which actually involved real, complex math.

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rocks for jocks in college rounded standard acceleration up to 10 m/s^2 to keep things simple

Will take this opportunity to share one of the ballers of science history.

Urbain Le Verrier had one of the greatest first principles predictions in astronomy, that’s better than Babe Ruth calling a home run.

A few decades after Uranus was discovered its trajectory didn’t match Newton’s laws.

So Urbain computed what object would be out there to alter the orbit accordingly.

He posted in a newspaper telling astronomers exactly where to point there telescopes and they found Neptune.