And once again, you can imagine the opposite joke: A professor says the sun will explode in five minutes, sees a student visibly freaking out, and repeats her claim. The student, visibly relieved: “Oh, thank God! I thought you’d said five seconds.”
If the sun exploded 5 seconds from now, it it would take about 9 minutes for you to be affected. 9 and 14 are within a factor of two of each other. You’d be lucky if you got such tight error bounds in astronomy! No doubt the professor thinks the student isn’t going to make it in astronomy.
If the sun exploded 5 seconds from now, it it would take about 9 minutes for you to be affected. 9 and 14 are within a factor of two of each other. You’d be lucky if you got such tight error bounds in astronomy! No doubt the professor thinks the student isn’t going to make it in astronomy.