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Post by Ian Pearse on Nov 6, 2009 10:29:40 GMT -4
I thought it was the Horta, from the Star Trek episode "Devil in the Dark" ;D
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Post by Ian Pearse on Nov 6, 2009 4:31:01 GMT -4
I frequently have to bite my tongue (figuratively speaking) when making replies to her comments, but it's hard to stay polite and calm with some of the stuff she comes back with. It's not likely to get anywhere but I can hone my debating skills
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Post by Ian Pearse on Nov 6, 2009 4:27:12 GMT -4
The article talks about possible methods of creation of this "skylight". Given it seems very nicely rounded, I'd say a meteorite impact was the most probable... It will be interesting to see the LRO pictures of the same area, with their higher resolution.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 21, 2009 11:50:31 GMT -4
Excellent, many thanks folks.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 21, 2009 8:35:34 GMT -4
I've looked over her site, and I read thru the thread. Eek. She's mad as a hatter. Just. Frikken. Wow. What's the deal with these people? I wish I knew. Still, it makes for a bit of light relief from time to time.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 21, 2009 7:29:50 GMT -4
Thanks folks. I was pretty certain they were fakes, but I wanted to be sure before I said anything to the original poster, and get the originals if possible. I knew someone out there would have some info! If anyone can identify the source of the launch control picture, I'd appreciate it, just to finish it all off.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 20, 2009 16:13:41 GMT -4
Incredible! Thanks for that link Drewid.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 20, 2009 14:58:18 GMT -4
You're telling me!
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 20, 2009 14:28:27 GMT -4
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 19, 2009 15:53:05 GMT -4
OK, spotted a major boo-boo in my maths.... comes of rushing into things. Used degrees when I should have used minutes. makes the distance 4435.8km instead.... still not a lot, mind you!
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 19, 2009 14:51:34 GMT -4
Good ole gmm over rsquared huh? Good thought. Might be an interesting exercise
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 19, 2009 12:05:43 GMT -4
Based on the 36km orbital altitude, I went a bit further. The Moon's orbital velocty works out at around 59km/hr.. interesting.
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 19, 2009 8:30:15 GMT -4
I don't think anything is going to help with this lady. She insists the Moon is no more than 20km in diameter. Based on an average apparent diameter of 31 degrees, this would put the distance to the Moon, if my maths is correct, of 36.058km....(radius of 10km = 10000m, distance being 10000 divided by tan 15.5 degrees). I'm pretty certain the Moon is somewhat more than 36km away....
Please let me know if I've made an error in my maths - this was just off the cuff stuff...
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 17, 2009 17:28:55 GMT -4
The lady I'm debating with at the moment seems to think that our ideas about the distance to the Moon are so far off that crater diameters are a factor of a thousand too large. This is based on her identifying statues and people on the Moon from photographs - if she can see that, our ideas of the scale of the Moon must be way off. Never occurred to her that, just maybe, her analysis skills may be a little off...
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Post by Ian Pearse on Oct 17, 2009 9:11:38 GMT -4
I joined, for fun, a facebook group called "Don't Bomb the Moon", to see what they were on about. As expected, it is the usual mix of mis-understood science and general guff that you come across. One thing that fascinated me was a series of comments from a lady who is convinced that the Moon consists of an outer and inner sphere, linked by steel trusses at the poles, and that the craters are portholes to the inside. She posted links to some pictures with areas highlighted to show purported holes and the inner sphere...? The links go to a site called holyconservancy.org. I had a brief look at it, and it's the biggest load of baloney I have seen in a long time. Has anyone else come across this? What is known of these people?
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