How is the Earth moving in a elliptical orbit around the Sun?
Why don't planets have Circular orbits?
Winter Bash 2014 closing remarks - ideas for next year we had a question like this, and  SE  members have supported one this year, and nobody seems to have made one yet.  Hence:  What does everybody want for next year's Winter Bash? It's okay to repost old ideas that have already come up if you feel they haven't had enough attention (but please don't go just copy/pasting every  !).  A few ideas I can think of off the top of my head:   Moar hats! There's been plenty of time to get all the hats this year; it would be great if next year there'd be more to do. Keep secret hats secret-er. This could be pretty hard to do, but possibly by deleting/locking "how do I get secret hats" posts?   One idea per answer, please! A physical explanation for negative kelvin temperatures I read news on the BBC (on its website) this morning. When I was reading the news I noticed the definite article the was missing in a sentence. As per my opinion, the reporter missed the article the. But I also thought that the reporter also had some point as he did not use the article there. So I just wanted to confirm so landed here to get some help on it.     On the website:      It also proclaimed the group's leader, XYZ  (name), as caliph and   "leader for Muslims everywhere".      As per my opinion it should have been:      It also proclaimed the group's leader, XYZ  (name), as the caliph and   "leader for Muslims everywhere".   Source link: Is it legal to copy Stack Overflow questions and answers? I just found http://programmingfaq.w3ec.com/faq/4761/whats-the-hi-lo-algorithm which has an exact copy of this Stack Overflow question, , with all its answers and no difference in a single character. There is no reference to Stack Overflow.  Is this legal, or at least tolerated? Is this impertinent theft of information? I just can't see any sense in copying whole pages, particularly when not referencing the source. Redirect after user login Under the  tag I have seen many questions on earth-616. Are there any other versions of earth as well? How do they differ from each other? Let me tell the story from the beginning: I installed Big Sur on an unsupported Mac using guidelines at Medium. In the guide it was stated that I should create a separate partition for Big Sur, and shouldn't install it on my current one. I had my SSD Called &quot;Macintosh SSD&quot; and later I created a partition named &quot;Macintosh SSD Big Sur&quot; of size 40GBs. After installation I wanted to clear the &quot;Macintosh SSD&quot; of size 80GBs(with old MacOS) and merge it with the new &quot;Macintosh SSD Big Sur&quot;. This is what I initially had after formatting partition with the old MacOS  So, I used the command sudo diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk3 after which I had (free space) in /dev/disk1  I want to extend that 39.6GB partition which free space of 80,1GB but all the commands I googled do not work:(( Could you please guide me on what I should do now? Thank you in advance! Chat is down. Where can I find when it'll be back up? Expected Value Of Number of Removals From Urn Here's the question: "An urn contains b blue balls and r red balls. You repeatedly and independently remove balls from urn (without returning them) until the first blue ball is drawn. All balls currently in the urn have an equal probability of being selected each time a ball is removed. Define the random variable X as the number of balls that are drawn (number of red balls that are removed plus the first blue ball that is removed). Find E[X], the expected value of random variable X."  I'm having trouble finding a closed form expression for the expected value. Here's the work I've done: Folding a cube (animation) I'm trying to fold a cube with an animation. I've tried inverse kinetics with no luck. Here are some images that explain what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make this so that    when the upper bone is pushed down, the box is folded to the ground. when the upper bone is pulled up, it unfolds the box. What is the difference between a HMAC and a hash of data? I want to write a function in Python that returns different fixed values based on the value of an input index.    In other languages I would use a switch or case statement, but Python does not appear to have a switch statement.  What are the recommended Python solutions in this scenario? How to calculate Area Under the Curve (AUC), or the c-statistic, by hand I am interested in calculating area under the curve (AUC), or the c-statistic, by hand for a binary logistic regression model.  For example, in the validation dataset, I have the true value for the dependent variable, retention (1 = retained; 0 = not retained), as well as a predicted retention status for each observation generated by my regression analysis using a model that was built using the training set (this will range from 0 to 1).  My initial thoughts were to identify the "correct" number of model classifications and simply divide the number of "correct" observations by the number of total observations to calculate the c-statistic. By "correct", if the true retention status of an observation = 1 and the predicted retention status is > 0.5 then that is a "correct" classification. Additionally, if the true retention status of an observation = 0 and the predicted retention status is &lt; 0.5 then that is also a "correct" classification. I assume a "tie" would occur when the predicted value = 0.5, but that phenomenon does not occur in my validation dataset. On the other hand, "incorrect" classifications would be if the true retention status of an observation = 1 and the predicted retention status is &lt; 0.5 or if the true retention status for an outcome = 0 and the predicted retention status is > 0.5. I am aware of TP, FP, FN, TN, but not aware of how to calculate the c-statistic given this information. Removing overlapping/duplicate polygons in same layer using QGIS? One or more of the following things happened to me on a Stack Exchange site:   My post(s) were wrongly deleted or locked by a moderator A moderator posted a wrong comment on one of my posts I was suspended, but did not do anything wrong I asked a meta question, but the question was closed and/or deleted A moderator discredited me in public ...   I think a moderator has abused their power, but I feel powerless against them.  What recourse do I have now? What can I do when I feel that a moderator has abused their power, and has been repeatedly unfair in their dealings with me? Downgrade Windows 7 Ultimate to Home Premium without a clean install Currently I've got an installation of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I would like to downgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium x64 without a clean install. I've got a (legal) retail disc and tried the following tricks:        Still the Windows setup keeps telling me I can't upgrade because I've got a higher version installed (Ultimate). The trick seems dead. Does anyone know a way to change from Ultimate to Home Premium without the hassle of a clean install? I gave a quick answer to part of  which had not been covered by previous answers, trying to clarify the reason you would say time of decoding but not decoding’s time. I said it was ’s usually indicates possession, but of course there were several counterexamples that would have occurred to me after a moment’s consideration, and these where helpfully supplied:   Britain’s climate two days’ time  a day’s work  the sun’s rays   I am still of a mind to say that possession of some sort is what allows the ’s. Even though the sun does not have title to its rays, they do belong to the sun. Now, at the risk of duplicating the original question and/or being pigheaded, I am curious as to why time of decoding but not decoding’s time is correct, if not for the reason I gave. New line in Sql Query I was trying to change my username and also my home directory (/home/username) and my system started to crash. I deleted the passwd file but I had a backup named passwd_bkp. I tried to rename this passwd_bkp as passwd and it did not work. No commands were being executed... I was in a terminal window.   I restarted my system and now I cannot log in. GRUB gives two options: Linux and recovery mode.   I tried to open a sessions as root but it says the filesystem is corrupted. I cannot access my files.  Did I lose all my files? In my profile my hat is on the correct position, but not in the top-bar. This is new. It worked until now.    Works neither in Chrome nor in Firefox.