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! Moderator Note You have a limited grasp of language, obviously. iNow asked for the meaning of a phrase you used, which he quoted. You perverted that request into a definition for a single word. You display a LOT of intellectually dishonest behavior that's inconsistent with the purpose of this science discussion forum. Please take a 3 day break (we need it!) and decide if you wish to come back with a less dishonest attitude.

The original machine had a base plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two main spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-deltoid type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible tremmie pipe to the differential girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboencabulator

My wife and I always look forward to December to see the lovely Orion in the Southern sky. We live in London There hasn't been one clear sky since December. Why would this be please? Keep well everyone

In 1986 when I obviously wore a younger man's clothes, I climbed up on our roof one evening, with my pair of 7x50's, to get a better view of Haley's Comet. After 15 minutes or so, a Police wagon stopped out the front and I was waived down. They told me that some woman from the four story units opposite my house, had rung them up re a "peeping Tom". It was only my Mrs coming out that convinced them of my innocent intentions!

Is not a problem with the forum nor anyone here. Everything right here. Is just that there are too much things to be questioned at the same time. Everything is interconnected someway in Physics, I know. Too much things to handle at the same time. The point is that I can't manage that. Same problem I would have in any other forum. It's a problem of mine...

It means the isolation during the pandemic has made her crazy. I'll have no part of this sausage fest. ( you can't bribe me with alcohol )

Works for me! Damn a bunch of naked old men on the beach, it will require alcohol in some form, Sam Adams Cherry wheat mixed with Tarantula Tequila is my poison...

! Moderator Note This has become agonizingly apparent. I told you we don't stoop to the intellectual dishonesty of conspiracy here at SFN. If you open any more rigor-free, unreasoned, bad-faith crap threads like this again, you're going to be instantly booted. I'm going to ask that you be put on a list of people who are pre-approved for banning on their next infraction. This is a science discussion forum. Conspiracy is expecting us to do all the digging into your mere suspicions while you do nothing but question. It's not going to happen here with you anymore.

Count me in bro.

"twelve year's old and in a barrel" - Frankie Boyle

All I can promise is a single malt.

Can I play?

No, religion is just the culture within which the politicians ply their trade.

Let's try to sum up what you have presented so far: -Claim that a bright area in a video is sun reflection. -Claim that the reflection is "too small" according to some unknown measure. -Support for your claim is an artist impression of mars as, it was believed to have looked like billions of years ago. The effect, light reflected from mars soil, that you discuss is invisible in the artists work. Anyone able to spot a few logical issues with your line of reasoning? Maybe because possible explanations, such as opposition surge, is well known in the community and not a very important aspect of the landing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_surge Here is an article specifically targeting the effect on mars: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/opposition-surge-sunlight-glinting-off-mars The opposition surge effect may be the reason why a bright spot appears in both missions' landing videos posted in this thread; Curiosity and Perseverance. The sun seems to be at a very similar angle relative the camera in both cases. As beecee have said from the beginning:

The dandelion in my front yard is an atheist. It doesn't believe the Earth is flat either. It's not exactly a remarkable claim to say something lacks a given belief, or for that matter, the capability of any belief.

I think continuity is an important element - Einstein hasn't stayed on a pedestal because of unthinking acceptance of his scientific contributions and adoration but as a result of continuing pursuit of science based understanding that keeps revealing how those contributions have significance. Lose the continuity of the institutions and practices of science - of advancing science - and turning purely to teaching what is known, then significant knowledge decline has probably already occurred. And without ongoing active research as well as teaching we probably will not be able to sustain the technology that modern societies and economies have become dependent on.

I doubt it very much Beecee. The current Pope was trained as a Chemist, and worked in a lab ( as well as a bouncer in a club ). Previous Popes have been Mathematicians and Astronomers. Galileo was an exception; the Vatican, and the Roman Catholic Church, have a long history of supporting the Sciences. Church has long history of supporting science - Vatican - Chicago Catholic As for Prof Reza Sanaye ... What, exactly, are you a Professor of ? Obfuscation and confusing use of the English language ? And who is the wide-eyed crazy guy in your avatar ?

And I'm supposed to just take your word on that? Please elaborate. Happy to discuss and correct any blindspots or errors in my thinking.

The problem is that both the stone and the mountain are classical objects and as such share the same fundamental properties. The same is not true, however, for the chair I am sitting on and the elementary particles of which it is ultimately composed - you can’t describe the properties and interactions of these particles with Newtonian mechanics, and conversely the chair as a whole will not exhibit any quantum effects. So these are distinct categories of objects, even though there is a definite relationship between them.

Just shared a lecture with a Nobel prize winner. Feels weird.

@Abhirao456 You may be interested in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair It's very much related to what @iNow's point.

I don't know what I am. Neither an atheist nor a theist. Is it necessary to be one? Can I not just be myself without being any atheist or theist?

I think a suitable God to be honoured with worship is a God whom one would like to exist, but for whom there is only scanty evidence. Since I live in the dull weather plagued UK this has led to me becoming a Sun worshiper.

I am afraid you are not quite right . . . . . ..

We all speak together...The universe either came from nothing or it is eternal.There is no third scientific option.Your model has the former ours has the latter.

Democrats themselves are in bad need of reformation towards the Left. All throughout this last presidential election, Democrats were able to show of themselves the greatest-ever recorded ability to quench the not-very-hidden desire inside their party to shed off those elements striving to return Democrats back to those policies that are not paid for by the Wall Street & by the Corporate America . .. . . .The present president is not gonna go far in preventing the not-very-far-from-now total collapse of the extremely biased capitalistic system in the US of A.

Ah , Truth is so irritating to you ?? !!

It is not gibberish. . .No . . No . . https://www.jstor.org/stable/25660634?seq=1 https://www.marxists.org/archive/corey/1934/decline/ch03.html https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/31/us-city-preparing-itself-for-the-collapse-of-capitalism https://time.com/4327419/american-capitalisms-great-crisis/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/07/the-forces-making-for-an-economic-collapse/376621/ https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/long-term-capitalism/rethinking-the-future-of-american-capitalism# Just prime yourself on the topic on theses , Dear Friend , so that i may be able to introduce even yet more in-depth material ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Sun reflection on Earth from 400 km. and Mars from 10 km. I have nothing to add to this thread. ISS animation source: Over Earth - Incredible Space Views from ESA Astronaut Alexander Gerst

They could both be called fairy tails if one dose not have an open mind...Why do galaxies collide if we are still accelerating?Why is the milky way colliding with Andromeda with gravity alone? Hows that possible?

Terminology is not determined by the percentage NOR by the number of ordinary people who do/do not comply with them . .. ..