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Ole Rømer, an Uncommon card
Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 140
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 30,000
Power 140 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Ole Rømer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ole Rømer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He ______ that light takes about 11 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth.
Answer
estimated. He estimated that light takes about 11 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth. From the Ole Rømer article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who, in ____, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed.
Answer
1670s. Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed. From the Ole Rømer article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ole Rømer. Ole Rømer 75 · Olivier Blanchard 72 · Lunar rover 69 · Surgical instrument 65 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between two fixed points, namely the points at which water boils and freezes.
- Rømer made his discovery regarding the speed of light while working at the Royal Observatory in Paris and studying Jupiter's moon Io.
- He estimated that light takes about 11 minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ole Rømer article was read about 30,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Ole Rømer
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ole Rømer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Jacob Coning, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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