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  Spacy question - ISS and gyros - what u think?

  by MrRoboto in

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  lots of spacy questions lately so i'll add mine here.

  theres a video of one of the guys on the international space station doing some experiments with a few portable cd players, using them as gyroscopes when turned on.

  it was interesting to see.

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  "The question is this: given the high speed and curved path of the ISS, what should we expect to see happen with an object that has active gyros in all 3 dimensions if we were to observe for 1 minute or more?" - Robo

  The ISS is falling around the Earth. The gyros would also be falling therefore they should maintain their position inside the ISS... However, with 3 gyros active inside an imaginary box the box should orbit its axis once for every complete circuit of the Earth that the ISS completes because the gyros would keep their axle perpendicular to their spin... In other words, on one side of the Earth the top of the box would be pointing to the ceiling of the ISS then on the other side the top of the box would be facing the floor...

  I believe that is correct based on my knowledge of how these things work... I may be wrong!
  
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  Also, it would be day at the same time all over the flat face of the Earth and there would be no opposing seasons either side of the equator.

  You really do have to know literally nothing to believe the Earth is flat...
  
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  Where to draw the line: how Platonism haunts our discourse and the search for exorcism

  by slimboyfat in

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  in the discussion about race i adopted a position i am not entirely comfortable with.

  i think there is a sense in which it is useful to distinguish categories of description that can be fruitfully defended (apples and bananas) and those that cannot (caucasian or other racial descriptions for example).

  but there is a more fundamental sense in which i believe that everything is socially constructed, every single line you can think of.

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  Pi is the mathematical expression of the relationship between certain ways to measure distance in a circle/sphere. The relationship cannot physically be any different therefore the mathematical expression cannot be any different whilst we use base 10. Even if we were to use another base the physical relationship remains the same.

  It is what it is.
  
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  WhatshallIcallmyself

  We can see the Earth is round from space; unless there is a huge conspiracy...

  We can see the Sun light illuminating the surface of various things in the Solar System and see the Sun not illuminating the opposite side of these same things (we can also measure the energy going into something and then radiating outwards again to gauge where the energy is coming from; that's outside this discussion though!).

  We don't have to do the experiments ourselves because we have a class of people to do that work for us - scientists. We trust what they say because there is not world wide conspiracy to mislead. Unless there is, of course...

  I don't need to prove that the person I am talking to every morning is actually my wife and not a construct of____ (insert any random nonsense idea here). I accept that she is my wife because not to do so is stupid.
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  "...care to discuss the substance???" - CG

  You should read your own resources first; that does seem to be a common ailment with creationists and the like, insofar that when they link to something other than creationist webshite nonsense their links actually say something other than they assert...

  Case in point; from your link:
  

  "It was pondering these developments that led Einstein to discover the special theory of relativity in 1905. The discovery was not momentary. The theory was the outcome of, in Einstein's own reckoning, seven and more years of work..."

  The original paper actually highlights and enlarges the bold text I've added; how did you miss this in the original?
  

  You, captaingrl, clearly (very clearly) have no understanding of how things work in science. You pretend that you do and try to buoy that notion up with words (theory) that you clearly (very clearly) do not understand. You then get ridiculed.

  
  
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  "none of you guys are addressing my question" - CG

  We have. You just aren't aware that we have...

  Be honest with yourself (unless you are trolling...) about your level of knowledge on this subject...

  
  
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  "DNA is like 70 years ago... evolution 150..." - CG

  So you are suggesting that our knowledge and understanding of these 2 ideas has either not improved over that period of time or that these theories have not changed...

  Based on your posts, it is quite clear that you do not understand enough about science to realise you do not understand enough about science.

  
  
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  "tell me about the theory that has been discovered most recently?" - captaingrl

  Can you tell us how a theory is discovered?

  Sometimes 1 sentence can explain a lot about someone's background in education...

  
  
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  The Scientific Method

  by cofty in

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  Aeroplanes were invented over 100 years ago.

  Jet technology was discovered over 80 years ago.

  There have been no advances in aeronautics in over 50 years.

  It's stagnating I tell you!

  As an aside, there is a reason for a stagnation of life expectancy. The longer we live, the more likely it is we get an incurable disease and die from that instead (lifestyle changes are also to blame of course). You sort one thing out and we find another thing waiting in the wings to kick us in the teeth. However, slowly but surely we are living longer and that is down to medicinal breakthroughs which is, of course, down to science...

  Also, it is rare that a never seen before event happens in science nowadays. What is common however are the small incremental additions to our knowledge that never see the light of day (as far as the layman is concerned) as it only affects those directly involved in researching various things out there in the unforgiving, thankless, real world of researchers.
  
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  Flat earth vs round earth

  by Jrjw in

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  my brother has been talking about the earth being flat and some big conspiracy going on to make people beieve otherwise.

  what are people's thoughts on this?.

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  WhatshallIcallmyself

  _Morpheus