On Aug 31, 6:18 am, Greg Crinklaw
wrote:
Margo, I have a question for you: When you pass those poor homeless
souls on the street who are lost in some sort of mumbled argument with
themselves, do you stop to argue with them? If not, why not? Gerald is
obviously mentally ill. You do believe in metal illness do you not?


Who knows Greg,maybe those poor homeless souls had a talent for
astronomy but never found their way past the indoctrinated numbskulls
who can't even manage to appreciate where the 24 hour day comes
from.The education system ,at least in terrestrial matters in
astronomy,geology and climatology, is rigged by mathematicians who
have no feel for the thinking of astronomers like Copernicus,Kepler
and Huygens.I can say this because your ideas for the axial and
orbital motion of the Earth do not exist -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:T...3%A9reo.en.png

Mental illness indeed !,what it takes to believe nonsense like
'sidereal time' and the Earth's axial and orbital motions when you
have the astronomical jewel like Huygen's treatise in front of you -

http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/Huygens/06/kort-E.html




I am certainly tired of reading his silly nonsense, as are most of the
people here. This topic hardly constitutes an interesting discussion
given that it is trivially simple.

The Equation of Time principles which keep clocks in sync and the
axial cycle at precisely 24 hours/360 degrees are easy to understand
once you recognise that the noon cycles are of unequal length.The fact
that all reference books reference an alternative system where the
noon cycle are proposed as equal makes this a huge astronomical
topic -

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/JennyChen.shtml






You might just as well make sweeping
sophisticated-sounding historical arguments about how the earth isn't
really a freckle on the face of a fairy dancing on the head of a pin.
Who cares? It would seem to me that the ravings of a lunatic are not
worth discussing unless it is in regard to getting him the help he so
disparately needs. Instead of that, you are merely giving him the
attention he so desperately craves.


Who is going to accurately represent the insights of Copernicus,Kepler
and Galileo ? - you,Margo here or any of the other guys who can't
manage to handle basic astronomical tenets like the noon cycle.

Crave !,you have no idea whatr it takes to come here day in and day
out and see the flow of astronomical insights stopped dead because a
guy made an awful mistake back in the late 17th century.You are heavy
on insults directed towards me but as far as I am concerned you
insult yourselves believing nonsense and while you lot feel you owe
allegiance to somebody like Newton,modern imaging shows him to be a
careless bungler via his silly view and resolution of retrogrades.




He doesn't get it. He is never going to get it. The worst part is that
you don't seem to get it either... You know what they say, "If you
argue with a fool you must argue like a fool or he will think himself
wise. If you argue like a fool you become a fool and the fool becomes
wiser then you. So never argue with a fool."

--
Greg Crinklaw
Astronomical Software Developer
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA (33N, 106W, 2700m)


Look,go make your few dollars with your celestial sphere software,the
chances are that Google will do it in a spectacular fashion but what
they cannot do is explain why it is not satisfactory to use the Ra/Dec
observational convenience to explain the axial and orbital motion of
the Earth.

Casting doubts on Margo or anyone else for responding to me is
childish,this is an open forum on the internet and if you can't hack
technical arguments then don't bother reading them and go off and play
with your celestial sphere software.where you can do no
harm.Now,unless you have a technical point to make then disappear and
stop being a complaining nuisance.







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