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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 ka9q on Feb 8, 2011 4:44:44 GMT -4
That's such a common representation in diagrams, how could he not know? That's exactly why I found his "incoherences" so funny! Look for his video "The Weird Electronics of Apollo". Aside from objecting to what I just described, he complains that you can't connect an analog output to a digital input (which I suppose rules out every A/D converter ever built), mistakes a differential amplifier for a differentiator, fails to understand how a set-reset flipflop works, objects that one doesn't apply power to the input of a logic gate (even through a switch -- I think I mentioned that one), cannot understand the concept of omitting repeated circuit elements to keep a drawing from becoming too cluttered, claims that because he has never heard of an "analog multiplexer" that there cannot possibly be any such thing, shows that he cannot comprehend the concept of a multiplexed data bus feeding an array of addressable output registers, and ... I'm only halfway through his video, and it's just too painful to continue. He has other videos on all the things he's found "wrong" about the Apollo Guidance Computer (because he learned all about computers in class, you see). He also has quite a few on supposed "incoherences" in Apollo photography, but most of those will no doubt be familiar to you from other hoax believers. He better hope that no prospective employers ever associate these videos with his real name. And I hope for those employers' sake that they do!
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Post by capricorn1 on Feb 8, 2011 8:26:50 GMT -4
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Post by ka9q on Feb 8, 2011 12:55:00 GMT -4
Yeah, hunchbacked is simply unbelievable. I rarely get more than a minute or two into any of his videos. The stupid just hurts my brain too much.
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Post by talltom on Mar 30, 2011 4:23:33 GMT -4
The problem with relying upon people with advanced degrees from Ivy League schools is that they can be "purchased" by the ultrawealthy, ultrapowerful people whom rule our society.
Former President George W. Bush has both a Bachelors out of Yale University and a M.B.A. out of Harvard Business School. I do not believe that George Bush was intellegent enough to earn any advanced degree. While he may have been guided by Karl Rove, a brilliant political strategist, I do not believe that George Bush had a basic understanding of Economics. (He said, "Deficits don't matter." Well unfortunately he did not understand that you can borrow an organization, like his baseball team, or the United States Government into insolvency.) Economics is one of the topics covered in any Business School in any University in the World.
Then, again, the Fox News organization was, and still is, a major supporter of the myopic, bitemporally hemianopic, anti-science and anti-intellegence agenda of the former President, this graduate of two Ivy League schools. Fox Broadcasting was also responsible for promoting the Moon Hoax theory in the first place by airing the "documentary". The lack of the editorial ethics and lack of responsibility demonstrated by Fox Broadcasting, in essence, gave credibility to a film that was undeserving. Futhermore this documentary manipulated the anti-science, anti-intellegentsia crowd to adopt an unreasonable belief that the Moon landings were an elaborate hoax perpetrated by the United States Government through NASA.
It is unfortunate that High School teachers have been remiss in developing skills of critical analysis in their students. It is also unfortunate that High School graduates do not have a basic understanding of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences upon graduation. The requirements for a High Scool Diploma only demand a rudimentary understanding of basic mathematical operational skills. Furthermore most High School graduates do not have an understanding of the technical terms that describe basic physical phenomenoa. In simpler terms most do not even have the mental capacity to understand basic Physics and basic Mathematics.
This disadvantage follows most High School graduates, that continue their education into the Colleges and Universities, throughout their undergraduate college education. The requirements for Mathematics for a degree are very low for most degree programs offered. The study of Higher Mathematics develop the skills of logic and critical thinking. Again the Science requirements for most degree programs are, once again, not demanding enough. Most graduates from our Colleges and Universities lack logic and reasoning skills due to the lack of demand placed upon them.
Most in our society do not value critical thinking skills because most lack critical thinking skills. If they only knew of the power of critical thinking skills then, perhaps, they would seek to acquire these skills as they tend to lead toward rapid advancement in any career path chosen.
If one lacks these skills then one can easily be swayed or fooled. The belief that the Moon Landings were a hoax, by 25% of our population just demonstrates that most lack critical thinking skills; and; that P.T. Barnum was correct in his assessment when he said that you can fool most of the people most of the time.
TallTom I Cor 13
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Post by echnaton on Mar 30, 2011 9:06:10 GMT -4
The belief that the Moon Landings were a hoax, by 25% of our population just demonstrates that most lack critical thinking skills A fairly boring rant. Do you have any support for this assertion of a 25% belief in a hoax? 25% of what population?
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Post by laurel on Mar 30, 2011 10:45:24 GMT -4
Wasn't it Fox that made this claim in the first place, only they said 20%? It seems like we have someone who is criticizing Fox but also repeating claims from their Moon Hoax program and saying they're true. Interesting.
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Post by gillianren on Mar 30, 2011 14:19:57 GMT -4
Also, that was Abraham Lincoln, not P. T. Barnum.
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