[extracted] New(?) 9-11 stuff

I'm almost certain velcro was invented by a German inspired by burrs attaching to his dogs fur.

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Tang is dehydrated orange juice. You add water to the powder and voila, you get juice. Or to put it in terms you might be more comfortable with, it's like dustified juice.

I loved Tang when I was a kid - Astronauts drank it! - but I haven't had any for decades. I won't try it again, though, too great a chance of ruining a pleasant childhood memory.

George de Mestral was Swiss, but yes, the micro-hook idea came from burrs sticking to his dog. His wife at the time (Monique, second of three) was a former fiancée of Ian Fleming's.

Only time I've had it was in jail, it was available from the commissary. I invented a fire drink, mixing Tang with dehydrated iced tea (Nesquik or something) then warming it all up in the microwave. Was actually much better than it sounds, lived off that ****.

No ****. What were you in there for?

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Heresy for supporting heliocentrism. I'm old.

You deserved to be in jail just for that.

What's with this nested quoting kick you've gone on lately? New fetish?

Trolly is a perv, so wouldn't surprise me.

I have no idea whether he is or isn't, but calling you "lagtit" makes him about as much of a perv as Mother Teresa.

Maybe. But I've called Trolly a perv several times and he's never denied the accusation if that means anything. And he certainly has no aversion to responding to my posts.

Ah yes the spinning ball religion. Fair cop.

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You know, you'd get more attention from people if you weren't so deliberately annoying.

Think it's something wrong with the software? I'm just using the quote button like I normally have afaict.

Are you using the new site? Looks like you might be, it glitches on question marks as well, as in the quoted part of your post above.

When are you going to tell us the shape of your planet, Billy? Your dustification theories are fascinating, but what we really need is for you to put a definitive end to the pancake vs. ice cream cone controversy.

You mean this?

Plane - a flat, 2-dimensional surface that extends indefinitely.

It makes sense that the Earth is infinite, that's why no one has found the edge yet.

I'm kinda late to this party and thought you were taking the piss at first but...are you an actual no foolin' bonafide flat Earther? You actually think the Earth is flat?

"Planet" is in fact a useful noun to categorise the wandering stars from the fixed stars. Planets being birthed from comets.

Max Born on the Ptolemaic system (from Einstein's Relativity):

"To the eye the heavens appear as a more or less flat dome to which the stars are attached. But in the course of a day the whole dome turns about an axis whose position in the heavens is denoted by the pole-star. So long as this visual appearance was regarded as reality an application of geometry from the earth to astronomic space was superfluous, and was, as a matter of fact, not carried out."

But but we need ball earth geometry to navigate the globe! - I hear you cry zealously. Not so. Max continues:

"To denote the positions of the stars only the apparent angle that the line of vision from the observer to the star formed with the horizon and with another appropriately chosen plane had to be known. At this stage of knowledge the earth's surface was considered at rest and was the eternal basis of the universe. The words "above" and "below" had an absolute meaning..."

Let that sink in. The ancients, who unequivocally did migrate the continents, required no such globe theory.

"it [world system] retained the notion that the earth is at rest and that the stars are revolving about it at immeasurable distances. Its orbits were determined as circles and epi-cycles according to the laws of earthly geometry, yet astronomic space was not actually through this subjected to geometry. For the orbits were fastened like rings to the crystal shells, which, arranged in strata, signified the heavens."

But but Ptolemy is debunked by Galileo! - goes the zealous cry. Yes but recall that mere refinement is enough to fix the geocentric conception. Why is one ad hoc hypothesis preferred to another?

One minor point to correct the great Max Born - he asserts the Greeks "knew" of the sphericity of Earth. They captured the idea from India, as with all their philosophy.

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Ah, so you realise it would have to be an infinite plane for your uniform gravitational theories to work. So, let's go with that. So we live on an infinite terrestrial plane, but the stars and other planets, they are spherical, have I got this right?

So your entire world view is based on ignoring all scientific developments of the last 500 years or so? Interesting.

There is no such thing as a sphere.

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