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  1. gcthomas

    Republican majority in the Senate drops to 51-49

    So firebrand conservative Roy Moore lost out to Democrat Doug Jones in the Senate election in Alabama, leaving the GOP with a slim two seat majority in the Senate. A recount seems unlikely given the 1.5% margin. What do you think?
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    And partly to film the airframe during the descent, I expect. Useful of anything goes wrong.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Rocket exhaust gases behave differently in a vacuum compared to sea level pressures.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Yet it still has no basis in reality and the claimed proofs and confirmed 'predictions' are sheer fiction and uneducated fantasy. Walt knows very little about the science he pretends to use (from my point of view as a physicist) and so he must be either a charlatan of a fool. Then why suggest I...
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    No, I didn't. You just made that up.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    The guy in the video has obviously never seen a hang-glider if he thinks that the Shuttle's wings are too short for gliding flight. Hasn't he ever made a paper dart and thrown it across the room? What shape are those wings?
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Here is how the book presents itself: It is the most complete reference work I have encountered on the scientific aspects of the multifaceted subject of origins. At the same time it presents a comprehensive theoretical framework (his hydroplate theory) for reconciling the many seemingly...
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    I see no wrath. Just wry amusement at the contortions of the literalists.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    I have done a number of times on ToL. It is a simple thing. Tell you what: Pick your favourite part of the book and I will refute is specially.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    The Hydroplate "Theory" is the most incompetent attempt at explaining scientific observations that I have ever read, but the author is only aiming to convince uneducated people to buttress them against the the threats to faith that come from seeing the world as it is, as opposed to the world as...
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Falling star is a synonym for shooting star. And the photo would look less suspect to you if you had any interest in actually going out and observing the world as it is. The meteoroids appear to radiate from a point due to perspective effects, like what you see as you drive in snow. The photo...
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    'Top' and 'Bottom' are conventions: you can consider them to be wherever you fancy and it makes not difference to the reality.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    When comparing models, it is much more instructive to list what they do not have in common. 1. Basic Physics is observably different in the two models. One of them matches reality. Guess which one? 2. We don't need a second difference. The first one is fatal to the other models.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Refraction has been known about for over 400 years, so the answer to your question "Can we test it?" is most certainly 'yes, it has been tested and has been fully understood for a very long time'. How come you are so far behind the times? Don't you have access to the Internet?
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Dave, were you home schooled by any chance? Did your school not teach physics? Or did you skip a lot? The answers to your questions involve the concepts that Isaac Newton wrote about in his book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" published in 1687. Every child in every...
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Theories that include an aether make less accurate predictions for the results of experiments than special relativity. That's it. No prior beliefs except in the value of mathematical theories and the testing of quantitative predictions by carrying out precise experiments.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Don't you have even the most basic understanding of how science operates? Perhaps not.
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Where shall we send your Nobel Prize to? (Do you think that the best physics brains of the world haven't tried to disprove SR and hence become famous beyond their dreams? If the best minds haven't got anywhere with it, why do think you have manages it without even any Physics or Maths training?)
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Quantum physics fully incorporates special relativity, and SR was developed with the M-M experiment in mind. The experiment in no way proves an aether, since its results are entirely and completely compatible with SR. Of you disagree, could you point me to the specific feature of the experiment...
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    The earth is flat and we never went to the moon

    Shame on you for name calling simply for disagreeing with you. I would like to have a proper discussion, but you won't answer any questions or respond to any criticism except by flat rejection. What sort of discussion is this? You really have bought into all this 'conspiracy theory without a...
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