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Post by abaddon on Aug 6, 2011 13:11:33 GMT -4
(at least where I'm from - Ireland). Me also. Whereabouts ya from?
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Post by abaddon on Jul 22, 2011 23:21:06 GMT -4
How he puts it together in his videos? It's very hard to explain, but it involves some whizzy graphics, lots of annoying music and a whole lot of cherry picking and quote mining. Don't forget the annoying voice. You'd think by now he'd learn to get somebody else to narrate his videos. OK, I must admit a personal failing. While JW rants are easily debunked, that nasal, supercilious voice invokes in me an immediate urge to seek a baseball bat.
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Post by abaddon on Jun 29, 2011 4:36:12 GMT -4
And, of course, by whose standards is said parent loving and wise? I've seen people who think they are and are really vicious, petty, and heedless. Well, that's interesting. I know that some are like that, and I know that I have made my best endeavour with my own two, to encourage critical thinking, and a rational view of the world. Yet still I see some parents carrying on what I consider to be a form of abuse, giving conflicting strictures, mostly because it suits their own agenda, it seems to me. Freedom is the key for me and mine. We have the most outrageous conversations, and it is truly an honour to be regularly floored by a very pointy question from one of my kids.
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Post by abaddon on Apr 10, 2011 20:24:23 GMT -4
I chose a prime number, but I'm not telling which one. It was 7.
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Post by abaddon on Mar 19, 2011 17:17:58 GMT -4
Whoever he is, he got stamped on pretty darn quick.
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Post by abaddon on Mar 19, 2011 17:09:49 GMT -4
I loved Silent Running at the time. I recently streamed it to my TV for a rewatch and was disappointed by how horribly dated it seemed due to the overpowering Earthmuffin flavor. Still, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are among SF's coolest (and most underated) robots, IMO. Yup, agreed. On the Full Metal Jacket thing, most people are surprised to learn that the combat scenes (comprising a majority of the film) were shot in the London docklands. And they did a damn fine job. Just watching the movie gives one an immersion in the reality of Vietnam. Truly a tour de force in film making art.
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Post by abaddon on Mar 2, 2011 18:01:10 GMT -4
LOL Just like your 'rational' comments on YouTube... Um where would that be? Searching for that, I just get lots of korean stew recipes.
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Post by abaddon on Feb 7, 2011 20:19:42 GMT -4
Well it does seem interesting that since his return this time he has started two threads, both aimed at Jason. Possibly aimed at me. Since there seems to be some interst in the issue: There is no first-hand source for Joseph Smith claiming that the moon had Quakers on it - the source of the claim appears to be a 1881 journal entry (36 years after Joseph's death) by Oliver B. Huntington, who was quoting a man named Philo Dibble (really) who had supposedly heard some remarks by Joseph claiming the moon was inhabited. Even then, the supposed quote is that the inhabitants of the moon dressed "quite uniformly in something near the Quaker style" - not that they were Quakers. Brigham Young said he believed that the Moon and the Sun were inhabited in at least one address, but didn't give any details as to their customs or manner. His point seems to have been that there are many things in the universe that we are completely ignorant of, not that he knew anything about such inhabitants through prophetic insight. So we have one very questionable supposed quote by Joseph Smith and one somewhat oblique reference by Brigham Young. Not much to build a criticism of a religion on, but pretty much par for the course for anti-Mormon claims. (As you might have guessed, I have seen and debunked this claim before) I will make two quick points. 1. I respect your beliefs. 2. This particular troll seems out to get at you. Do not respond. It will not have a happy ending.
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Post by abaddon on Feb 7, 2011 17:57:10 GMT -4
And he strenuously objected to another schematic in which a set of wires merged into one and separated again elsewhere on the page. When I explained that this is a common way to minimize drawing clutter, he continued to protest that the circuit could not possibly have worked with such obvious short circuits, and whoever drew it must have been trying to blow the whistle on the Apollo hoax! Wait, What? That's such a common representation in diagrams, how could he not know?
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Post by abaddon on Feb 7, 2011 17:37:31 GMT -4
So does that mean it is really "rick" with a silent "p"?
Apologies, couldn't resist.
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Post by abaddon on Dec 22, 2010 17:42:59 GMT -4
How is radiation shielding better now than it was in the 60's? Shielding is shielding, right? Do we now have some magic technology that protects spacecraft from radiation better than we did back then? This seems like just another version of the primitive technology argument. That's not the point. How were unbrellas any better in the 60's than they are now? They weren't. But was the rain heavier in the 60's or not? Did the unbrella manufacturers just happen to "get lucky" and produce an unbrella that was exactly waterproof enough for the 60's rain? Or perhaps they knew how heavy the rain was and built the unbrella correctly for that amount of rain. By your own logic, perhaps they knew how "heavy" the radiation was and built Apollo correctly for that amount of radiation.
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Post by abaddon on Dec 20, 2010 13:21:11 GMT -4
I know that the landings were real-no doubt-so dont get me wrong, but why are the pictures from Google Earth better that the ones here? Google pics are shot from 200 miles through an Atmosphere and these are from 50 mls and no Atmosphere... Has anybody a clue? A lot of Google Earth imagery is taken from aircraft, not from orbit, ie only 5 or 6 miles up.
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Post by abaddon on Dec 18, 2010 15:13:36 GMT -4
That was just excellent!
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Post by abaddon on Dec 17, 2010 16:04:15 GMT -4
It's not something people notice, because it is on the opposite side of the CM hatch and is not normally visible when you see images from the LUT or during the launch. And a follow up question. Did that notch have any impact on the CM orientation during re-entry?
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Post by abaddon on Dec 15, 2010 1:50:30 GMT -4
The Boost Protective Cover had a notch on one side that fit around the umbilical fairing. Cz Great diagrams, thx. I am surprised I never copped the notch before.
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