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[quote="NoelC"]Art, you free-associate better (and more entertainingly) than anyone I know.
Does that level of creativity reinforce your scientific endeavors?[/quote]
Thanks, Noel.
Well, it certainly helps me think "outside of the box."

Unfortunately, I am terrible at following directions, procedures, etc.

In Physics lab back in the '60's my lab instructor commented that if I ever worked in the nuclear industry he hoped it would be far out in the desert.
[quote="NoelC"]I do it as well, though I'm not quite so public about it.
I can't count the times I've dreamed the answer to a difficult problem or conundrum.[/quote]
My hero, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Landau][b]Lev Landau[/b][/url] was a big advocate of solving problems in his head while lying down.

Art, you free-associate better (and more entertainingly) than anyone I know. Does that level of creativity reinforce your scientific endeavors?

I do it as well, though I'm not quite so public about it. I can't count the times I've dreamed the answer to a difficult problem or conundrum.

-Noel

[url=http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/6/62/FugitiveGlock22-2.jpg/600px-FugitiveGlock22-2.jpg][b]Kimble s Cascade[/b][/url]

[b] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheoah_Dam[/b]

[url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100128.html][img]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_100128.jpg[/img] [size=150]Kemble's Cascade[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] [url=http://www.deep-sky.co.uk/asterisms.htm]An asterism[/url] is just a recognized pattern of stars that is not one the 88 official constellations. For example, one of the most famous (and largest) asterisms is the [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060317.html]Big Dipper[/url] within the constellation Ursa Major. But this pretty chain of stars, visible with binoculars towards the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe]long-necked[/url] [url=http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html]constellation[/url] of Camelopardalis, is also a recognized asterism. Known as [url=http://www.agt.net/public/fenertyb/KmbCsc08.html]Kemble's Cascade[/url], it contains about 20 stars nearly in a row, stretching over five times the width of a [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090416.html]full moon[/url]. Tumbling from the upper right to lower left in the picture, Kemble's Cascade was made popular by astronomy enthusiast [url=http://www.syz.com/rasc/scircles.htm#biography]Lucian Kemble[/url]. The bright object at the lower left is the relatively compact [url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/open_clusters.html]open cluster[/url] of stars, [url=http://www.dibonsmith.com/ngc1502.htm]NGC 1502[/url].

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