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Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
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I set 'em up, you knock 'em down!
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.'
Ever heard of "Clever Hans"?
 (September 13, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(September 13, 2016 at 4:23 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Right. There are 2. I think the other one was hiding in Capricorn until Gawdzilla coxed it out. They're going to name it after him, ya know. Which Carl are you referring to and what book?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers. Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. --Voltaire Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.  
It's funny how we talk of suns being light years away, yet if you travelled to either sun at the speed of light it would take the same amount of time to get there.
 (September 14, 2016 at 8:40 am)Little lunch Wrote: It's funny how we talk of suns being light years away, yet if you travelled to either sun at the speed of light it would take the same amount of time to get there. Fortunately, if you travel near the speed of light, much less time passes for you, the traveller, than on Earth!
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
 (September 13, 2016 at 11:02 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: We're nearly four times closer to Alpha centauri than to El Sol. So why hasn't that closer star pulled us out of orbit? Ummmm. . . see that big giant yellow thing in the sky? That's the sun. It looks so big, and feels so hot, because it's close to us. Bae, it's nice to learn numbers, but you gotta think practically, too--- do you really expect that little tiny speck in the night sky to have a more dominating pull on the Earth that that huge, huge thing in the daytime sky? Doesn't make sense, right? (September 14, 2016 at 8:43 am)Alex K Wrote:(September 14, 2016 at 8:40 am)Little lunch Wrote: It's funny how we talk of suns being light years away, yet if you travelled to either sun at the speed of light it would take the same amount of time to get there. And if you're lucky enough to be a photon, you get to have NO time pass, which means that from your perspective, the sun you came from and the skin you get absorbed into are touching. And if space is an illusion in one frame of reference, it must be an illusion in ALL frames of reference. Or something. (insert geometrical crayon drawing here) RE: Why Doesn't Earth Orbit alpha Centauri?
September 14, 2016 at 9:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 14, 2016 at 9:26 am by Alex K.)
As I always like to reiterate, the rest frame of a photon is not a mathematically well-defined frame of reference that is valid in relativity. I consider the collapse of all of space to an infinitely thin sheet from this vantage point as a mathematical pathology.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
(September 13, 2016 at 8:18 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(September 13, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: I used to think I was a Capricorn until Carl explained precession. St. Carl of Sagan. He explained that the zodiac had rotated since the days the dates were laid out, resulting in a "one-off" error on everybody who is currently alive. http://www.livescience.com/4667-astrological-sign.html Quote:You will most likely find that once precession is taken into account, your zodiac sign is different. And if you were born between November 29 and December 17, your sign is actually one you never saw in the newspaper: you are an Ophiuchus! The eliptic passes through the constellation of Ophiuchus after Scorpius. |
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