UFO's and extra-terrestrial life - Page 3

retrojet · #21 08-05-2011, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDawg

lawl

See what happens when you listen to pop rock groups from Georgia while posting?

PARDON!!! YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP!!!

well, it reminded me of the film where a nuclear flat-top goes back in time to ww2 ...etc... etc... Can't remember the name, but you know...

TheDawg · #22 08-05-2011, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Catwoman would get jealous though...

now to the point... when you can't plausably discredit the fact you resort to ridiculing it. Its an age old human trait, indicating a closed mind.
Ridicule it all you want, but you'll never change the fact that the ball has to travel faster than the carriage in order to travel from the rear to front along the carriage's line of travel.

Frankly I'm comfortable ridiculing things I dont understand. I'm white, middleclass and under educated... Probably something to do with it right there
Was self defecating humor in the rules section?

TheDawg · #23 08-05-2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by retrojet

PARDON!!! YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP!!!

well, it reminded me of the film where a nuclear flat-top goes back in time to ww2 ...etc... etc... Can't remember the name, but you know...

I can now blame you for not being able to remember.
they just promoted that on the tv channel...dammit...it was..ah..
splash the zeros...pffft.. I got nothing now...
edit: wait...nope..gone.. martin somebody was in it...

ATAG_Dutch · #24 08-05-2011, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

erm, we can have forms of basic communication with other animals actually.

'The language of the Universe is mathematics' - can't remember who I'm quoting, but have you ever tried to explain differential equations to a dolphin?

If so, what would you say was the dolphin's overall aptitude for calculus?

But I agree with the pub part.

Rattlehead · #25 08-05-2011, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Blimey, I think I just had a bit of a rant. Sorry chaps!

It was a good rant though.

To be honest, I've always been a bit of a fence-sitter on this subject, which is why I thought I'd create the topic and see what others think.

Not to sound like a loony, but I saw a UFO (as in, unidentified) once, and it was a pretty amazing experience. Never seen anything like it, nor do I expect to ever again.

bongodriver · #26 08-05-2011, 04:05 PM

equal and opposite reaction, the throw of the ball will create just enough opposite force to slow the train enough so the balls travel is never faster than light.

retrojet · #27 08-05-2011, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Dutch_851

'The language of the Universe is mathematics' - can't remember who I'm quoting, but have you ever tried to explain differential equations to a dolphin?

If so, what would you say was the dolphin's overall aptitude for calculus?

But I agree with the pub part.

My dog knows Sit! Stay! And wait! Especially when we're in the pub!
Now, if only my wife understood me

CharveL · #28 08-05-2011, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Catwoman would get jealous though...

now to the point... when you can't plausably discredit the fact you resort to ridiculing it. Its an age old human trait, indicating a closed mind.
Ridicule it all you want, but you'll never change the fact that the ball has to travel faster than the carriage in order to travel from the rear to front along the carriage's line of travel.

Respectfully, you speak of facts without actually determining them. It's a difficult concept to wrap your head around, I know it was for me too, but this concept you are using is hardly new, and Einstein himself postulated it in the early part of the century, and subsequently managed to explain it using his theory of special relativity.

At the time it wasn't possible to test this particular aspect (your example, not every aspect of his theories) experimentally but over the years it has.

If I'm going 50mph in a car and turn my headlights on, the beams still go the speed of light to the observer at the side of the road. The 4th dimension of time adjusts.

This will help explain it for you...

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/hillis/hillis_p2.html

retrojet · #29 08-05-2011, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by TheDawg

I can now blame you for not being able to remember.
they just promoted that on the tv channel...dammit...it was..ah..
splash the zeros...pffft.. I got nothing now...
edit: wait...nope..gone.. martin somebody was in it...

Final Countdown? No... That sounds lame...

Dang Dawg, does it matter, mate... Have another pint on me!

Happy Friday!

Sternjaeger II · #30 08-05-2011, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Wolf_Rider

Catwoman would get jealous though...

now to the point... when you can't plausably discredit the fact you resort to ridiculing it. Its an age old human trait, indicating a closed mind.
Ridicule it all you want, but you'll never change the fact that the ball has to travel faster than the carriage in order to travel from the rear to front along the carriage's line of travel.

lol easy man, it was just a joke. The point is that your theory is flawed cos you can't recreate those conditions, and even if you did, it wouldn't work