Comments on: We have a winner! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: RAF http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29537 RAF Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:15:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29537 The Bad Astronomer wrote: The odds are only 1 in 276 you’ll get 99 like I did. I got 99 on my third try. What are the odds for that?? The Bad Astronomer wrote:
The odds are only 1 in 276 you’ll get 99 like I did.

I got 99 on my third try. What are the odds for that??

]]> By: Matthew "wailashi Casserly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29536 Matthew "wailashi Casserly Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:08:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29536 Jay! Thank you everybody. To Chip Actually I live in southern Finland (the approximate coordinates are in my post). It's been -20C for the last few weeks, and this is considered a fairly warm winter. I've been out with a telescope in -30C To Laguna2 The first number I got was also 99. Seems popular nowadays. Maybe I should try the lottery or something. Jay! Thank you everybody.

To Chip
Actually I live in southern Finland (the approximate coordinates are in my post). It’s been -20C for the last few weeks, and this is considered a fairly warm winter. I’ve been out with a telescope in -30C

To Laguna2
The first number I got was also 99. Seems popular nowadays. Maybe I should try the lottery or something.

]]> By: Johnny Vector http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29535 Johnny Vector Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:38:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29535 No no no! <a href="http://xkcd.com/c221.html" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is how you create a random number! (Boy I hope HTML links work here. Sure would be nice if we had a preview option, dont'cha think?) No no no! Here is how you create a random number!

(Boy I hope HTML links work here. Sure would be nice if we had a preview option, dont’cha think?)

]]> By: Laguna2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29534 Laguna2 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:47:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29534 Congratulations Wailashi! Funny, I tried the random number generator and guess what the first number I got was... 99! Congratulations Wailashi!

Funny, I tried the random number generator and guess what the first number I got was… 99!

]]> By: aiabx http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29533 aiabx Fri, 09 Feb 2007 05:10:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29533 Humph. Sounds like the fix was in to me. *I* wanted that book. Humph. Sounds like the fix was in to me. *I* wanted that book.

]]> By: Chip http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29532 Chip Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:34:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29532 Congrats Wailashi! Your stated reasons for wanting the book are quite sound, (especially if you happen to live in the Midwest and Eastern US or Canada right now!) Brrrr. :D Congrats Wailashi! Your stated reasons for wanting the book are quite sound, (especially if you happen to live in the Midwest and Eastern US or Canada right now!) Brrrr. :D

]]> By: Grand Lunar http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29531 Grand Lunar Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:03:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29531 More contests? Cool! Hopefully, the odds will favor me then. Oh, congrats to you Wailashi! :) More contests? Cool! Hopefully, the odds will favor me then.

Oh, congrats to you Wailashi! :)

]]> By: Geroge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/comment-page-1/#comment-29530 Geroge Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:46:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/02/08/we-have-a-winner/#comment-29530 Nice gift and contest. And you had to do all the math. :) Nice gift and contest. And you had to do all the math. :)

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