On Feb 4, 10:56*am, "newshound" wrote:
"Hils" wrote in message

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newshound wrote:
Heaven help us all.

Do tell. I stopped watching TV altogether nearly two years ago: has it
become worse than ever? What have I missed. Feel free to express yourself.
:-)

It would take too long. I always loved Alan Bennet's description of how he
would listen to Any Answers so that he could sit and "fume in impotent
liberal rage".

There was "tides are caused by a bulge towards the moon" (so why are there
two per day?)


Read a good book instead of the modern junk and especially those works
which exist before Newton's toxic strain of empiricism -

http://books.google.com/books?id=RyB...page&q&f=false

That was written in 1666 when men could actually discuss things and
think things through by themselves and that type of empiricism where
there were interpretative buffers between experiment and
experience,for instance,these guys use analogies to explain the tides
but do not impose the analogies directly to planetary dynamics whereas
Isaac distorted things to make it appear that analogies shade off into
'Universal laws'.Pity,he ruined a perfectly good approach to the links
between terrestrial effects and astronomical causes.



The spin rate of the earth is reducing. So, by Newton's second law something
must be speeding up. The moon is speeding up and getting further away.

And she designs satellites!

Then there was all the Goldilocks stuff, isn't it lucky that geology plus
celestial mechanics ensures that all these life forms have niches which are
just right for them.