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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 6:16 am
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2015 at 6:18 am by robvalue.)
I'd argue that you can't "prove" anything. The most you can do is to demonstrate that a series of premises logically lead to a particular conclusion; that's the closest thing to a proof.
As has been said, science simply offers the best available models and explanations.
So to answer the question, no I certainly can't prove it exists! All I could hope would be to convince someone beyond reasonable doubt, and what is reasonable is going to be subjective.
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 6:28 am
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Buzz Aldrin will punch you in the face if you say he didn't go to the moon to his face.
If you deny the existence of the moon to his face he goes super-saiyan, rips your spinal cord out through your anus then erases you from time.
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 6:33 am
Libration disproves the notion of a flat cardboard Moon. Gravity would likely disprove a holographic one, unless it's some exotic form of hologram displaying or simulating gravity proportionate for a body of the Moon's mass and size.
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 6:42 am
(June 12, 2015 at 6:28 am)Iroscato Wrote: Buzz Aldrin will punch you in the face if you say he didn't go to the moon to his face.
Only if you spend the afternoon shoving a bible in his face, calling him a liar because he won't swear on it, continually blocking him from crossing the street with his granddaughter and generally refusing to go away when asked multiple times.
Michael Collins (iirc) would literally kick your arse out the door for pulling the same kind of shit.
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 10:29 pm
(June 12, 2015 at 6:16 am)robvalue Wrote: I'd argue that you can't "prove" anything.
Good answer.
I do intend on trying the weight change during high tide vs. low tide. I am going to use a digital scale so I can remote the display and put a barrel of water on it and log the weight and temperature for about a week.
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 10:34 pm
(June 12, 2015 at 2:30 am)Neimenovic Wrote: Well documented, actual event.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11
I do not know those people. Why should I take their word for it?
Neimenovic Wrote:But not rocks from the moon that can't be found anywhere on earth and date 3.16 billion years back
Circular argument. I do not know those rocks are from the moon.
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 10:47 pm
What about an eclipse? Could a flat cardboard moon bend space?
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RE: Just for fun.
June 12, 2015 at 10:52 pm
Wait, never mind. I fucked that all up. The eclipse only allowed us to see the sun's gravity bending the light of the stars in the line of sight. Fuck! Got ahead of myself.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
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For context, this is the previous verse:
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RE: Just for fun.
June 13, 2015 at 12:02 am
I say we blow the motherfucker up. That'll silence the solipsists.
You know you want to, and IMO, blowing up the moon is an idea who's time has come.