RE: Evidence Against God
April 20, 2012 at 11:54 pm
(This post was last modified: April 20, 2012 at 11:55 pm by Abishalom.)
(April 20, 2012 at 11:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote: 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:Ok so 5 objects...is that it?...I noticed you never mentioned a teapot so I guess we can rule that out.
(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.