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Post by PeterB on Oct 22, 2010 9:25:56 GMT -4
He (Antonio Zikos) implies that the gravitational force would be greater the deeper that one travels; I believe (correct me if I'm mistaken) that the gravitational force would decrease by a miniscule amount the deeper that one goes. That's right - the gravitational pull of the mass above your head partially counteracts the gravitational pull of the mass beneath you. We experience the maximum gravitational force here on the surface of the Earth.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 15, 2010 6:54:39 GMT -4
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Post by PeterB on Oct 13, 2010 8:41:45 GMT -4
Didn't the Mythbusters try building an "over-unity" device with a flywheel? And a solar-powered propane wheel...thing? And try using a large antenna to generate electricity from radio waves? Yes, but they're obviously either incompetent or in cahoots with the Ebil Electricity Companies.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 12, 2010 8:05:52 GMT -4
I thought Jim Oberg did a good job of debunking those stories. They even quoted Oberg in the article, yet went on to endorse all the other things the Italian guys did.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 11, 2010 9:17:48 GMT -4
...but the principle of free electricty is real. Do you mean electricity you don't have to pay for, electricity which is produced without the expenditure of energy, or something else?
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Post by PeterB on Oct 11, 2010 9:13:20 GMT -4
Seems like Elvis has left the building...again.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 10, 2010 7:41:39 GMT -4
I know one of the popular comments by HBs about the LM is how the surface material of the LM is uneven, and they point to post-lift-off pictures of rippled skin on the back of the LM Ascent Stage to make their point.
Well, I happened to catch the second half of the classic 1957 movie "Bombers B-52" starring Karl Malden, when at one point I saw an impressive view of one of the bombers (I forget whether it was a B-47 or a B-52) from side-on while it was in the air. An extensive area of the skin of the fuselage between the wing and the tail showed severe rippling, yet the aircraft didn't seem to be in the slightest affected.
If it didn't affect a fast-flying jet aircraft in the Earth's atmosphere, how could it possibly affect a spacecraft in the vacuum of space?
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Post by PeterB on Oct 6, 2010 10:56:13 GMT -4
Take note of point 4. Well, that settles it for me. I'm convinced by our resident Nazi. 10 - zero return visits to the surface since by so much as a nanobot Yeah, uhuh. We haven't been to the Moon since the last time we went to the Moon. Very suspicious. As Dwight said - obviously Surveyor was faked too. Well I suppose it must have been if they weren't going to land Apollo on the Moon... For Rodin's values of natural. Maybe Lunar Jim can make sense of them. Obviously the astronaut 'voices' we can hear were pre-recorded. Does Rodin seriously believe we can't go and check that for ourselves, even if on YouTube? I just watched the landings of Apollos 15, 16 and 17, and each threw out plenty of dust. That seals it - the vital extra piece of evidence of Apollo being faked which wasn't available until 2001. Too right it's contested. And yet it's in Rodin's top 10. Watch out, Dwight, he's rumbled you. Okay, so according to Rodin the Apollo 11 astronauts take a photo of a key piece of evidence that the landings were faked, and NASA didn't stop them. The only logical reason for doing that is a Percy-style whistleblow. Only problem, none of the Hoax Believers of the last 40 years have spotted it. That's not a very good advertisement for the Hoax Believers - that they all missed something that only Rodin spotted.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 6, 2010 7:07:19 GMT -4
Rodin Why not visit www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/index.shtml#cores This link takes you to a section of the Lunar and Planetary Institute's web-site detailing the various core samples collected on the Apollo missions. Have a read of the reports written on each core. Look at the wide range of scientific data collected from each of them. Look at the photos of the cores themselves. Check out the lists of scientific articles which have been published as a result of studying each of the cores. Ask yourself honestly whether hundreds of scientists are either (a) unable to tell fraud when it's sitting right in front of them, or (b) willing to go along with the fraud in return for little reward and almost complete anonymity.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 3, 2010 9:18:58 GMT -4
And for those who are fascinated by connections and coincidences...
Collingwood player Heath Shaw is the son and nephew, respectively, of former Collingwood players and brothers Ray and Tony Shaw. So what?
Well, obviously, Heath Shaw played in last week's drawn grand final.
Ray Shaw captained Collingwood in the 1977 drawn grand final; and
Tony Shaw captained Collingwood in both their last drawn finals match * and their last premiership, both in 1990.
* The drawn match occurred in the first week of the 1990 finals series. It resulted in a rule change providing for extra time to resolve draws on the day of the original match.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 3, 2010 9:14:59 GMT -4
Oh, and for those St Kilda fans bemoaning the loss of two grand finals in two years, consider Collingwood's results.
After winning the 1958 flag, Collingwood:
- was humiliated by Melbourne in 1960, despite the conditions supposedly favouring Collingwood; - gave Saint Kilda their only premiership in 1966, losing by 1 point; - had the largest lead in a grand final by a team which went on to lose the game in 1970 against Carlton; - lost the 1977 grand final replay to North Melbourne after the first game was drawn; and - lost the 1979, 1980 and 1981 grand finals to Carlton, Richmond and Carlton again.
Collingwood's win in 1990 was therefore greatly welcomed. It's been frustrating to have to wait another 20 years for another premiership.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 3, 2010 9:07:39 GMT -4
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Post by PeterB on Oct 3, 2010 8:59:10 GMT -4
Ah, what a sweet sensation - the football team I support won the AFL premiership yesterday afternoon. It's Collingwood's first premiership since 1990, having lost grand finals in 2002 and 2003.
But it came in heartstopping fashion. Collingwood finished the regular season in first place, which provides a useful advantage going into the finals. It therefore wasn't a surprise that they made it into the grand final. And their start in the big game was good too. In a low scoring game, they held a handy lead by half time, but it could have been quite a bit more if they'd kicked accurately.
Then, in the second half, St Kilda made a strong comeback, and seriously outplayed Collingwood. A few minutes from the end, the Saints hit the front for the first time in the game, and they seemed to have all the momentum. Collingwood scored a late goal to snatch the lead by one point, but with barely a minute remaining, Saint Kilda made a minor score to level things up. Then the siren went, and the grand final ended in a draw.
Now in the regular season, drawn games are an accepted result. But in all the finals games except the grand final, a draw means extra time, and if scores are level at the end of extra time, the teams keep playing until someone scores. The grand final is different again: if the grand final is drawn, it's replayed the following week.
So yesterday's game was the replay. And it started in remarkably similar fashion, with Collingwood taking a solid early lead. The main difference leading up to half time was that Saint Kilda just couldn't kick goals. Their best chance came when one of their players took a mark only a few metres out and turned to play on immediately. What he didn't realise was a Collingwood player racing up on his blind side to smother the kick, a charge-down that many rugby league, rugby union or American football players would be proud of.
By half time, the lead was about the same as it had been in the first match. The difference in the replay was that it was Collingwood which kicked ahead in the third quarter, not Saint Kilda. And it continued into the final quarter, with Collingwood extending its lead until it finished more than double Saint Kilda's score.
The feeling is still good, and I'll have a few fellow Collingwood supporters to share it with at work and other activities.
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Post by PeterB on Oct 3, 2010 7:51:45 GMT -4
I'm torn between "Mmmm, light sandwich" and "Oh, the stupid, it hurts."
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Post by PeterB on Sept 29, 2010 22:27:58 GMT -4
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