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#898428
Argle Bargle
So I guess you'll have to find out when you die that the difference between planets and stars is so inconsequential and minute, it's not even worth arguing about.
I fail at basic astronomy, but that doesn't matter cuz' you're so gonna burn in hell, nyah!
2/13/2009 11:09:59 PM
#898433
Headache
So I guess you'll have to find out when you die that the difference between planets and stars is so inconsequential and minute, it's not even worth arguing about.
Oh Carico!
2/13/2009 11:14:00 PM
#898440
Wottock C. Hunt
Carico HAS to be a Poe. I mean, honestly. A person that dumb would forget how to breathe while trying to remember their first name and suffocate.
2/13/2009 11:19:09 PM
#898457
Earth = planet
Sun = star
Big fucking difference, dipshit.
2/13/2009 11:27:02 PM
#898458
Lucilius
Actually, Carico, you're probably right. Now go live on a star.
2/13/2009 11:27:53 PM
#898465
Pule Thamex
OK that confirms it. You're definitely insane.
2/13/2009 11:31:04 PM
#898474
QT
Okay Carico, let's learn something:
Planet:
Star:
2/13/2009 11:34:24 PM
#898490
Ozzie
Two in a row from Carico, and on Friday the 13th. Bad luck I guess.
2/13/2009 11:39:32 PM
#898491
Old Yeller
monumental science fail
2/13/2009 11:39:36 PM
#898504
Mr Blur
Carico, bonkers as ever. Too dumb to survive, really.
2/13/2009 11:44:28 PM
#898573
Osiris
Seriously woman. How do you manage to dress yourself in the morning without killing yourself?
2/14/2009 12:19:12 AM
#898588
Zoo
[To be honest, I doubt it. I know of no observations that show apes of any sort other than humans keeping track of the sky for calendrical/religious purposes, which is, if I recall, how other planets were discovered to begin with. I would suspect they may be able to use the sun to navigate, however (apes tend to be diurnal), much like many other animals.]
It's not hard to criticize you Carico. You know absolutely nothing, like that a star is thousands+ of times bigger than even a very large planet.
Carico FTT: "Sorry, but look on the web and see that there is confusion in today's society about whether the sun rotates around the earth as well. After all, motion is relative to stationary objects. But if both objects are moving, especially if we are living on a moving or rotating object, then it's difficult to determine if the sun is moving or not."
The sun is stationary RELATIVE TO US. It's like being on a teacup ride: each cup can spin or not, and a small set of them rotate on a disk around a common center. The center is like the sun, the cup is like the earth. THEN the center of those rotating disks is rotating around another center. Both the "sun" and the "earth" are moving, but it is not confusing to determine what is rotating around what else.
The confusion you cite is not mainstream. The sun-centered fact has been suspected since long before Copernicus, and there is of course evidence for it (like being able to calculate the positions of the planets accurately far in advance).
I'm not going to go through the whole thread, but this is just too much:
"Sorry but you need to read Christ's parables. The parable itself is alway true and so is the spiritual meaning behind it. If the parable itself were not true, then the meaning behind it couldn't be true either. So read Christ's parables next time before you post."
A parable does not have to be true. It doesn't even have to be plausible, though I'm sure that helps drive the message home better.
2/14/2009 12:26:58 AM
#898621
If I only had a rocket capable of reaching the sun....
2/14/2009 12:51:34 AM
#898652
tracer
Zoo wrote:
"The confusion you cite is not mainstream. The sun-centered fact has been suspected since long before Copernicus, and there is of course evidence for it (like being able to calculate the positions of the planets accurately far in advance)."
However, Copernicus was the first to use a sun-centered model of the solar system to calculate those planetary positions -- and his calculations were no more accurate than the earlier ones based on the Ptolemaic (Earth-centered) model.
It wasn't until Kepler that a sun-centered model of the solar system was used to predict planetary positions with
greater accuracy than an Earth-centered model.
2/14/2009 1:06:26 AM
#898655
Amanda
Tell me that while you're living on the sun.
2/14/2009 1:07:01 AM
#898676
anonymous
Yes, what's a few several orders of magnitude in diameter and temperature between friends?
2/14/2009 1:14:49 AM
#898679
Papabear
How can Carico still exist? I thought his/her amount of stupidity would have been fatal by now?
2/14/2009 1:15:28 AM
#898773
Old Viking
Oh yeah? Oh yeah? So how come we call some people movie stars and not movie planets?
2/14/2009 2:23:20 AM
#898774
Moondog
A chimpanzee is smart enough to recognize itself in the mirror, and know it's not another chimp. That said, if chimps are told about Carico, they'll be pissed she's in the same class and order as them.
"She's a primate? I thought she was a garden slug!"
2/14/2009 2:28:03 AM
#898777
i guess carico subscribes to the "light in a firmament" belief. in that case, yes, the difference between stars and planets would be negligible, as they are both lights.
but that aside, MASSIVE ASTRONOMY FAIL
2/14/2009 2:30:20 AM
#898806
zaatheist
Religion rots brains.
2/14/2009 3:00:23 AM
#898829
Mr. Creazil
No difference...
Except that one is on FIRE.
2/14/2009 3:34:39 AM
#898866
Funnyguts
This makes no sense. So instead of a meaningful post, I instead supply this gif I just found:
2/14/2009 4:17:22 AM
#898897
Porter
No excuse? Erm, down syndrome? Or are they not people?
2/14/2009 4:43:32 AM
#898955
Zipperback
Translation: anything that disproves my half-assed whackadoo ideas is inconsequential and minute.
2/14/2009 5:20:10 AM
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