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On Jan 11, 4:42*pm, Sam Wormley quoted, in part:
One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle is now turning toward Earth.

It's a pity that when it "bathes the Earth in its eerie glow", nothing
particularly interesting or unusual will happen. Not that science is a
dull affair, but our world is more prosaic than the one in comic
books.

Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!

I can see some benefits of this. Especially in places like India and
South Africa. But men would likely benefit too, from living in a world
without war, terrorism, or tyranny.

John Savard

"Quadibloc" wrote in message
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On Jan 11, 4:42 pm, Sam Wormley quoted, in part:
One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle is now turning
toward Earth.

It's a pity that when it "bathes the Earth in its eerie glow", nothing
particularly interesting or unusual will happen. Not that science is a
dull affair, but our world is more prosaic than the one in comic
books.

Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!

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That's easy, just multiply them all by Einstein's comic book beta that you
profess to understand, that'll liven up dull science. Not even Oriel can
come up with something as stupid as your supposition, Quadiblockhead.

-- "Quadibloc" wrote in message
...
(begin quote)
At the end of Section 3 we find the transformation derived:

tau=beta(t-vx/c^2),
xi=beta(x-vt),
eta=y,
zeta=z,
where beta=1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2).

With trivial algebraic manipulation we can derive the inverse
transformation:

t=beta(tau+v(xi)/c^2),
x=beta(xi+v(tau)),
y=eta,
z=zeta.
(end quote)
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Not only is Savard hopeless at simple algebra, he quotes the drool of some
unnamed moron who is equally hopeless.
Perhaps he can show, step-by-step, his trivial derivation, like this:
xi = beta(x-vt)
Divide both sides of the equation by beta
xi/beta = beta(x-vt)/beta
Since beta/beta = 1,
xi/beta = 1*(x-vt)
Add vt to both sides of the equation
xi/beta +vt = (x-vt)+vt
Since vt - vt = 0,
x = xi/beta +vt

Why is Savard multiplying xi by beta instead of dividing?


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Quadibloc:
Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!

I can see some benefits of this. Especially in places like India and
South Africa. But men would likely benefit too, from living in a world
without war, terrorism, or tyranny.

Women are not capable of war (Elizabeth I, Maggie Thatcher), terrorism
(suicide bombers), or tyranny (Marie Antoinette and myriad others)?

Are you aware that the historical reason that women and children have
been barred from combat is that they are too vicious? In the absence of
psychopathic commanders such as Cheney and Rumsfeld, your average
soldier will shoot you and kill you or wound you. But at the end of the
day he'll treat you if you're wounded and captured and leave you in
peace to clear the field of your dead.

Women will torture your wounded, take potshots at your medics, and
mutilate your dead out of viciousness. Post-Bush regime none of this
matters in USA. as we have dropped all pretenses of fighting wars from
the moral high ground.

Women are suing to be permitted in the front lines of the combat
infantry alongside men. We might as well let them. It could be argued
that anyone who would volunteer for combat may be psychopathic and
masochistic as well as sadistic, so there's no use fretting over what
an enemy might do to a captive woman.

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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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On 1/12/2013 2:05 AM, Quadibloc wrote:
On Jan 11, 4:42 pm, Sam Wormley quoted, in part:
One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle is now turning toward Earth.

It's a pity that when it "bathes the Earth in its eerie glow", nothing
particularly interesting or unusual will happen. Not that science is a
dull affair, but our world is more prosaic than the one in comic
books.

Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!

I can see some benefits of this. Especially in places like India and
South Africa. But men would likely benefit too, from living in a world
without war, terrorism, or tyranny.

John Savard




Trust me, you don't want women like my EX to have superpowers.

It would not be good for the male of the species..............

On Jan 12, 2:05*am, Quadibloc wrote:
On Jan 11, 4:42*pm, Sam Wormley quoted, in part:

One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle is now turning toward Earth.

It's a pity that when it "bathes the Earth in its eerie glow", nothing
particularly interesting or unusual will happen. Not that science is a
dull affair, but our world is more prosaic than the one in comic
books.

Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!

They already have them.

On Jan 12, 2:05*am, Quadibloc wrote:
On Jan 11, 4:42*pm, Sam Wormley quoted, in part:

One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle is now turning toward Earth.

It's a pity that when it "bathes the Earth in its eerie glow", nothing
particularly interesting or unusual will happen. Not that science is a
dull affair, but our world is more prosaic than the one in comic
books.

Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!


They did that in the last ep. of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and the
result was the whole town of Sunnydale fell into a huge sink hole.

On Jan 12, 10:57*am, AM wrote:
On 1/12/2013 2:05 AM, Quadibloc wrote:









On Jan 11, 4:42 pm, Sam Wormley quoted, in part:
One of the biggest sunspots of the current solar cycle is now turning toward Earth.

It's a pity that when it "bathes the Earth in its eerie glow", nothing
particularly interesting or unusual will happen. Not that science is a
dull affair, but our world is more prosaic than the one in comic
books.

Suppose, instead, that it gave all women super powers!

I can see some benefits of this. Especially in places like India and
South Africa. But men would likely benefit too, from living in a world
without war, terrorism, or tyranny.

John Savard

Trust me, you don't want women like my EX to have superpowers.

It would not be good for the male of the species..............

Just look at spiders...