RE: Evidence Against God
April 20, 2012 at 11:51 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2012 at 11:54 pm by Cyberman.)
Apologies for this sudden reversal; I haven't really been following this thread since there's a limit to the amount of idiocy I can take in a day and my tolerance threshold, normally set low in any case, tends to fluctuate depending on my mood. However I simply won't be able to sleep if I don't harpoon this particular whopper:
Manmade objects most certainly and abolutely can orbit the Sun. Meet:
* Helios-1 and -2, launched into heliocentric (Sun-centred) orbits of around 190 days;
* the now-retired and decommissioned Ulysses, launched from Discovery in 1990 into a 6.2 year heliocentric orbit; and
* STEREO, the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (I just love those painfully shoehorned NASA acronyms), consisting of two spacecraft - STEREO-Ahead and STEREO-Behind - launched in 2006 into heliocentric orbits of 346 and 388 days respectively on an eight-year mission to completely map the Sun in 3D.
There you go - five manmade and sun-orbiting teapots for you. Ready to retract your assertion now? I'll wait.
(April 17, 2012 at 12:49 pm)Abishalom Wrote: Man made objects cannot orbit the sun, therefore the orbiting teapot cannot exist.
Manmade objects most certainly and abolutely can orbit the Sun. Meet:
* Helios-1 and -2, launched into heliocentric (Sun-centred) orbits of around 190 days;
* the now-retired and decommissioned Ulysses, launched from Discovery in 1990 into a 6.2 year heliocentric orbit; and
* STEREO, the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (I just love those painfully shoehorned NASA acronyms), consisting of two spacecraft - STEREO-Ahead and STEREO-Behind - launched in 2006 into heliocentric orbits of 346 and 388 days respectively on an eight-year mission to completely map the Sun in 3D.
There you go - five manmade and sun-orbiting teapots for you. Ready to retract your assertion now? I'll wait.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
