Space telescopes.

Quote from: markjo on May 22, 2013, 06:09:45 AM

Quote from: sceptimatic on May 22, 2013, 05:51:51 AM

Can you prove that I wasn't chosen as the person to know everything and I'm giving little snippets out as simply and as slowly as possible?

Everyone knows that Sandokahn is the chosen one, not you.

Can you prove this?

Read the FAQ: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php/topic,30499.0.html#.UZ0abqLkvK0

EDIT: I just thought about it, and I have to imagine that to anyone who has no clue about physics, normal sentences like ours must sound exactly like the senseless FET statements like "the sun is black and possibly a hollow electromagnetic converter". No wonder there's a problem...

I think you're onto something there. For example,

transferring their momentum.

If you already kept him reading up until this point, well, you've lost him now. We spent a good dozen pages one time explaining inertia to him. He argued endlessly that inertia doesn't exist and that those indoctrinated scientists just make up words to sound smart.

I thought hoppy was the chosen one? 

Quote from: RyanTG on May 21, 2013, 12:13:46 PM

I did come across this a couple of weeks again that posits an alternative to the conventional gravity model of planetary orbits:

http://morethangravity.com

This is quite a transparent equivocation. You just rename "gravity" as "solar wind" and suddenly you have a theory. Unfortunately it is not much of a theory because it does not explain the moons of the planets, the Cavendish Experiment, or just about anything other than planetary orbits.

Also, we know what solar wind is and we know that it cannot pull the planets into orbits. It is just not enough, has no "pulling" power and has a lot more electromagnetic influence than short range gravitational effect.

In short, this is an attempt to hijack the real scientific work that discovered solar wind to lend a scientific appearance to an unsustainable hypothesis.

I know.

EDIT: I just thought about it, and I have to imagine that to anyone who has no clue about physics, normal sentences like ours must sound exactly like the senseless FET statements like "the sun is black and possibly a hollow electromagnetic converter". No wonder there's a problem...

Exactly. These guys believe the words have power by themselves and that by saying "the solar wind does it" you have an actual explanation of something. Never mind that, as you said, the force is in the opposite direction as the one needed, has the wrong magnitude and its interaction with a planet is of the wrong kind. If you can answer the question of what keeps the Earth in an orbit with less than 10 monosyllable words you call that an explanation and do not bother yourself with the fact that it is the wrong explanation.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0

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