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Old September 8th 18, 08:07 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default What kind of freakshow is NASA running?

On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 10:40:47 PM UTC+1, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 13:01:56 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote:

On Friday, 7 September 2018 10:13:04 UTC-4, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 06:34:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

You have an overactive imagination.

The article says a former NASA contractor accessed women's computers. It says nothing about whom the women are or whether the computers are their home or work computers.

In fact, the article does not even make clear whether the perpetrator (whom you interestingly appear to disdain less than his victims) was working under contract at the time he committed his crimes.

All in all a bad, misleading article caused you to jump to odd and wholly unsubstantiated accustations. Perhaps you may want to track down wherever Alex Jones is posting these days?

Rich likes to attack NASA because they study the Earth, and he doesn't
like that.


Since NASA isn't the only providers of rockets today, they could confine themselves to studying OUTER SPACE and leave the Earth study to others.


Studying space is only half their job. Has been since day one. If they
stopped studying the Earth, they'd be violating their charter. They
are the branch of U.S. government tasked with Earth observations from
space.


Any organisation that is unable to express the facts of a round and rotating Earth is in trouble as this is where space (planetary motions) and terrestrial sciences intersect as cause and effect. It is more important to know exactly how the 24 hour value for one rotation was arrived at than the fact itself so here it is -

As long as humanity uses a watch and the 24 hour day then the rotation rate is 15° per hour and once in 24 hours as per the Lat/long system. The day is broken up into components of sunrise, noon, sunset and midnight and these events happen once each 24 hour day as the planet turns 360 ° with these milestones anchored to noon hence AM and PM.



The total length of the noon cycle is Not 24 hours. If you used a sand clock or a water clock as a timer each time the Sun crossed your longitude meridian it would show different amounts of sand and water for each cycle. If you combined the sand or water for say 20 cycles and then divided them equally you would get an average amount and this is what the Equation of Time does - it creates the average 24 hour day using noon cycles as a benchmark.



As 'average' has roughly the same meaning as 'constant' (the average/constant flow of water through a pipe), the average 24 hour day connects to the Lat/Long system so that you can say the Earth rotates constantly at an average rate of 15 degrees per hour and 360 ° in 24 hours. This is the way the whole thing works so if you enjoy clever reasoning then you should enjoy how timekeeping works with the motions of the Earth. It is perhaps the first and last time I will explain this so take your time and discover the history of Longitude, the development of the calendar system and even the troublesome celestial sphere system ( which is giving you the false 23.93 hour value) but know that the planet actually turns once each 24 hour day.

I am not appealing to the mindless however much it appears as they exist in a no-man's land of their own design where they linked circumpolar motion directly to rotation and bypass the Sun in the process where cause and effect is the all important factor. NASA is therefore working against its own charter , not by ignoring the fiction of late 17th century RA/Dec modelling but by being silent on the most basic experience of astronomy and the motions of the Earth known to humanity.