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![]() "MichaelJP" wrote in message . .. : : "Androcles" wrote in message : . uk... : : "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message : ... : : ukastronomy wrote: : : : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. : : Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he : says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. You won't get : through to him, though, so he gives the appearance of a troll. : : I've tried reading some of his and "bradguths" stuff, it has all the : appearance of being a rational scientific argument but it doesn't actually : make sense. : : A weird experience to try and read it - like the experience of reading a : difficult science textbook but never having the satisfaction of : comprehension. Not recommended! : : I wonder if all the posts written fresh "to order" or is there a lot of : cut-and-pasting? The thought of it all being typed in by someone is : staggering! : Oh, he creates it. Kelleher refuses to accept the sidereal day. I few years ago I suggested he shoved a couple of poles in the ground and aligned them to a star he'd recognise again and note the time, then check again the next night and the night after that ... a simple experiment anyone can do and see it align 4 minutes earlier. Kelleher went off on a tirade of how Newton and Flamsteed got it all wrong and insisted the Earth rotates 360 degrees in 24 hours. He's simply not cooking with a full set of saucepans. I'm sure if you met him on the street he'd appear smarter than the average bear, but some people get these fixations in their heads and nothing can dislodge them. It makes you want to go in and tighten the one loose screw rattling inside their head and they'll be rational again, but you just can't do it. Sci. newsgroups are a magnet for them, Tom Roberts is another. Why would an otherwise normal and reasonably intelligent man make a statement like this: "This is PHYSICS, not math or logic, and "proof" is completely irrelevant. Among astrophysicists and astronomers, the existence of black holes is indeed commonly accepted. But not universally, I believe. The reason for this is the striking similarity of numerous measurements on dozens of objects to the predictions of models treating them as black holes. Plus the fact that nobody has come up with another model that describes the data equally well." -- Tom Roberts Beneath the veneer of well-written and punctuated English lies the heart of a knuckle-dragging crossbreed homo neanderthalensis and gorilla gorrilla. |
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On 4 Dec, 11:08, "MichaelJP" wrote:
"Androcles" wrote in message . uk... "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message ... : ukastronomy wrote: : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. You won't get through to him, though, so he gives the appearance of a troll. I've tried reading some of his and "bradguths" stuff, it has all the appearance of being a rational scientific argument but it doesn't actually make sense. A weird experience to try and read it - like the experience of reading a difficult science textbook but never having the satisfaction of comprehension. Not recommended! I wonder if all the posts written fresh "to order" or is there a lot of cut-and-pasting? The thought of it all being typed in by someone is staggering! - MP I suggest you take up stamp collecting or some other pursuit. I provide plenbty of graphics,not to convince you how silly you are but for others who may eventually escape the astrological reasoning you are chained to - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...3%A9reo.en.png Since remote antiquity it is known that noon two noon cycle are equal,in order to justify the axial and orbital motions of the Earth using the return of a star in 23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds you most certainly believe that the noon cycles are 24 hours exactly. |
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On 4 Dec, 14:43, "Androcles" wrote:
"MichaelJP" wrote in message . .. :: "Androcles" wrote in message .uk... : : "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message : ... : : ukastronomy wrote: : : : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. : : Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he : says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. You won't get : through to him, though, so he gives the appearance of a troll. : : I've tried reading some of his and "bradguths" stuff, it has all the : appearance of being a rational scientific argument but it doesn't actually : make sense. : : A weird experience to try and read it - like the experience of reading a : difficult science textbook but never having the satisfaction of : comprehension. Not recommended! : : I wonder if all the posts written fresh "to order" or is there a lot of : cut-and-pasting? The thought of it all being typed in by someone is : staggering! : Oh, he creates it. Kelleher refuses to accept the sidereal day. What Flamsteed did was create the fiction of the 'sidereal day' and the equally mythic difference between the 'solar day' using the motions of the Earth.It is not my refusal to accept the sidereal day,it is the dominance of the 'sidereal time' belief and its creationist sentiments which beggars belief. I few years ago I suggested he shoved a couple of poles in the ground and aligned them to a star he'd recognise again and note the time, then check again the next night and the night after that ... a simple experiment anyone can do and see it align 4 minutes earlier. You numbskull,for a star to return 3 minutes 56 seconds earlier without fail you have to use the calendar system and add an extra day at the end of February on the fourrth year to make it work.You believe that you are justifying the Earth orbital motion in 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes but in fact,through the dumb reasoning of Flamsteed,you are working with a 365/366 day system known as the 1461 day calendrical cycle. You want to do the experiment then do it in a leap year between the end of Feb and the beginning of March and you will certainly get the star returning 3 minutes 56 seconds earlier than the prvious cycle.You ar just too silly to realise the implications. Kelleher went off on a tirade of how Newton and Flamsteed got it all wrong and insisted the Earth rotates 360 degrees in 24 hours. While the value may be extremely close to the value of 24 hours,axial rotation has never been isolated to determine exactly what the value is, and I assure you it is way off 23 hours 56 minutes 04 seconds He's simply not cooking with a full set of saucepans. I'm sure if you met him on the street he'd appear smarter than the average bear, but some people get these fixations in their heads and nothing can dislodge them. It makes you want to go in and tighten the one loose screw rattling inside their head and they'll be rational again, but you just can't do it. Sci. newsgroups are a magnet for them, Tom Roberts is another. Why would an otherwise normal and reasonably intelligent man make a statement like this: You have established as a fact that you can justify the motions of the Earth using the return of a star to a location and you taken on board,as Newton did, a false principle created by Flamsteed in a very definite statement - "... our clocks kept so good a correspondence with the Heavens that I doubt it not but they would prove the revolutions of the Earth to be isochronical" Flamsteed hence - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...3%A9reo.en.png Unfortunately you are turning on its head the entire known astronomical principle which determines that there is no external reference to isolate axial rotation and certainly not natural noon.The great Huygens states it clearly - " ..in 365 days, 5 hours 49 min. or there about, and that those days, reckon'd from noon to noon, are of different lenghts; as is known to all that are vers'd in Astronomy." http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/Huygens/06/kort-E.html I am sorry,perhaps you are like Michael here who has a very small brain and cannot handle anything more than a telescope . "This is PHYSICS, not math or logic, and "proof" is completely irrelevant. Among astrophysicists and astronomers, the existence of black holes is indeed commonly accepted. But not universally, I believe. The reason for this is the striking similarity of numerous measurements on dozens of objects to the predictions of models treating them as black holes. Plus the fact that nobody has come up with another model that describes the data equally well." -- Tom Roberts Beneath the veneer of well-written and punctuated English lies the heart of a knuckle-dragging crossbreed homo neanderthalensis and gorilla gorrilla. Beneath the veneer of a follower of Newton beats the heart of an astrologer and his 'predictions'.It turns out that you cannot even predict what time it takes the Earth to rotate through 360 degrees to the nearest minute never mind the second. |
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![]() "Androcles" wrote in message . uk... "MichaelJP" wrote in message . .. : : "Androcles" wrote in message : . uk... : : "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message : ... : : ukastronomy wrote: : : : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. : : Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he : says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. You won't get : through to him, though, so he gives the appearance of a troll. : : I've tried reading some of his and "bradguths" stuff, it has all the : appearance of being a rational scientific argument but it doesn't actually : make sense. : : A weird experience to try and read it - like the experience of reading a : difficult science textbook but never having the satisfaction of : comprehension. Not recommended! : : I wonder if all the posts written fresh "to order" or is there a lot of : cut-and-pasting? The thought of it all being typed in by someone is : staggering! : Oh, he creates it. You surprise me. It would be amusing to spend a day writing a bot to respond to any "oriel36" newsgroup text in a posting. I reckon it could quite handily produce posts at about the same level of discourse ![]() Kelleher refuses to accept the sidereal day. I few years ago I suggested he shoved a couple of poles in the ground and aligned them to a star he'd recognise again and note the time, then check again the next night and the night after that ... a simple experiment anyone can do and see it align 4 minutes earlier. Kelleher went off on a tirade of how Newton and Flamsteed got it all wrong and insisted the Earth rotates 360 degrees in 24 hours. He's simply not cooking with a full set of saucepans. I'm sure if you met him on the street he'd appear smarter than the average bear, but some people get these fixations in their heads and nothing can dislodge them. It makes you want to go in and tighten the one loose screw rattling inside their head and they'll be rational again, but you just can't do it. Sci. newsgroups are a magnet for them, Tom Roberts is another. Why would an otherwise normal and reasonably intelligent man make a statement like this: "This is PHYSICS, not math or logic, and "proof" is completely irrelevant. Among astrophysicists and astronomers, the existence of black holes is indeed commonly accepted. But not universally, I believe. The reason for this is the striking similarity of numerous measurements on dozens of objects to the predictions of models treating them as black holes. Plus the fact that nobody has come up with another model that describes the data equally well." -- Tom Roberts Beneath the veneer of well-written and punctuated English lies the heart of a knuckle-dragging crossbreed homo neanderthalensis and gorilla gorrilla. |
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On 4 Dec, 11:08, "MichaelJP" wrote:
"Androcles" wrote in message . uk... "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message ... : ukastronomy wrote: : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. You won't get through to him, though, so he gives the appearance of a troll. I've tried reading some of his and "bradguths" stuff, it has all the appearance of being a rational scientific argument but it doesn't actually make sense. A weird experience to try and read it - like the experience of reading a difficult science textbook but never having the satisfaction of comprehension. Not recommended! I wonder if all the posts written fresh "to order" or is there a lot of cut-and-pasting? The thought of it all being typed in by someone is staggering! - MP One more thing,I can pick up the newspaper and read about the new insight of expanding tropics - http://news.google.ie/news?tab=gn&hl...ncl=1124410815 The fact is that I was trying to have the matter discussed for years based on a much needed modification for the seasons based on the motions of the Earth - http://groups.google.ie/group/sci.en...6d67b3412dfad1 I am only too delighted to see that you cannot grasp the concepts I put forward,not just the old and distinguished astronomical principles but also the new material such as the modification based on replacing variable inclination with a new orbital component.,.You are that dull kind which Galileo spoke of * ,unable to change and unable to intepret what is before you - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwTrYVBcx9s "I know; such men do not deduce their conclusion from its premises or establish it by reason, but they accommodate (I should have said discommode and distort) the premises and reasons to a conclusion which for them is already established and nailed down. No good can come of dealing with such people, especially to the extent that their company may be not only unpleasant but dangerous." Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632 Your company is unpleasent but it is not dangerous,it is just plain dull. |
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Androcles wrote:
"Mark McIntyre" wrote in message ... : ukastronomy wrote: : : (replying to oriel36) : : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. The distinction is blurred nowadays. Its still best not to respond however. It only encourages him. |
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![]() "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message ... : Androcles wrote: : "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message : ... : : ukastronomy wrote: : : : : (replying to oriel36) : : : : please don't reply to trolls, it only encourages them. : : Trolls deliberately post garbage, Kellerher actually means what he : says. Kellerher isn't a troll, he's merely deranged. : : The distinction is blurred nowadays. Its still best not to respond : however. It only encourages him. True enough. Trolls or deranged, the solution doesn't change. The difficulty is deciding if there is any difference between Kelleher and a guy that finds something special about two stars on approximately the same line of sight that he calls "doubles". |
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Androcles wrote:
The difficulty is deciding if there is any difference between Kelleher and a guy that finds something special about two stars on approximately the same line of sight that he calls "doubles". No idea why you put doubles in quotes - optical doubles is an accepted term for these sets of bodies. |
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On Dec 6, 6:09 am, Mark McIntyre wrote:
Androcles wrote: The difficulty is deciding if there is any difference between Kelleher and a guy that finds something special about two stars on approximately the same line of sight that he calls "doubles". No idea why you put doubles in quotes - optical doubles is an accepted term for these sets of bodies. ....but optical doubles are not always clearly indentified as such in some list(s) of double stars, apparently. |
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![]() "Mark McIntyre" wrote in message ... : Androcles wrote: : : The difficulty is deciding if there is any difference between : Kelleher and a guy that finds something special about two : stars on approximately the same line of sight that he calls "doubles". : : No idea why you put doubles in quotes - optical doubles is an accepted : term for these sets of bodies. So the Seven Sisters is an optical septuplet? What's the big deal with New York and London being less that 30 arc minutes apart when flying from Luxembourg on the same great circle, that I should call them double cities? They both have stock exchanges and Bum****, Alabama doesn't, perhaps? |
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