What about the birds? What will happen if they fly into this gargantuan amount of energy beam? Will they be roast duck with mango salsa or be ok? Now planes need to be wary of winds, mountains, storms, other planes, and energy beams?:-P
If they start preaching the scientific method in the show, how many kids could actually watch it? In a sense, they place a simple hypothesis out there in the beginning and go see what they can find out about it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that your idea wouldn't fly. I was a physics major in college and the first thing the general public says is "I wouldn't be able to do it. Its too complicated and boring." By dumbing it down the way they do, they reach the audience that could never appreciate science in the least!
Agreed- thats another $120+ for them per textbook. If decision is reversed, $150+ for its replacement? Oh where did the extra $30 come from? Simple. Textbook inflation.
The national archives flooded a couple weeks ago, if you were remotely in the north east, you would have known that. All of DC basically shut down, essentially opening the doors to anybody who wanted to grab anything. IF it had been faked, they wouldnt have kept the video in the archives in such high quality. Every claim to be faked has been proven wrong
"But one thing they haven't done is coax a single prediction from their theory. In fact, "theory" is a misnomer, since unlike general relativity theory or quantum theory, string theory is not a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world. It's more of an idea or a framework."
Something that is a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world is a LAW!
An idea or framework is a THEORY!
This guy has a PhD? Just because something is too small to see, too difficult to imagine, too abstract to think is possible- DOESN'T mean it should be dismissed because headway has been rough the past 30 years! Did Physics become invented in the past 10 years? 100 years? or thousands of years!?
This is regarded by folks at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD (where they design and engineer the Hubble and parts for it) as Servicing Mission 4. When I was last there in March, the scientist the designed and built the mass spectrometer for it told me that its current one is no longer working. It had actually outlived its expected age by around 50% I believe. Furthormore, this will be the last servicing mission for the Hubble. After that, the hopes is to have the new and much more powerful telescope flying.
Some facts- GSFC is just on the outside of Washington, DC- it is a HUGE campus. I was lucky enough to be able to get a behind the scenes tour from where the build the hubble's twin for parts in an enormous clean room, to where they test satellites for launch, etc. They handle unmanned space missions here.
They control Hubble in Baltimore from Johns Hopkins University.
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What about the birds? What will happen if they fly into this gargantuan amount of energy beam? Will they be roast duck with mango salsa or be ok? Now planes need to be wary of winds, mountains, storms, other planes, and energy beams? :-P
Yo Moron,
If they start preaching the scientific method in the show, how many kids could actually watch it? In a sense, they place a simple hypothesis out there in the beginning and go see what they can find out about it. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that your idea wouldn't fly. I was a physics major in college and the first thing the general public says is "I wouldn't be able to do it. Its too complicated and boring." By dumbing it down the way they do, they reach the audience that could never appreciate science in the least!
Do you live in a bubble?
Shit.
Agreed- thats another $120+ for them per textbook. If decision is reversed, $150+ for its replacement? Oh where did the extra $30 come from? Simple. Textbook inflation.
The national archives flooded a couple weeks ago, if you were remotely in the north east, you would have known that. All of DC basically shut down, essentially opening the doors to anybody who wanted to grab anything. IF it had been faked, they wouldnt have kept the video in the archives in such high quality. Every claim to be faked has been proven wrong
"But one thing they haven't done is coax a single prediction from their theory. In fact, "theory" is a misnomer, since unlike general relativity theory or quantum theory, string theory is not a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world. It's more of an idea or a framework."
Something that is a concise set of solvable equations describing the behavior of the physical world is a LAW!
An idea or framework is a THEORY!
This guy has a PhD? Just because something is too small to see, too difficult to imagine, too abstract to think is possible- DOESN'T mean it should be dismissed because headway has been rough the past 30 years! Did Physics become invented in the past 10 years? 100 years? or thousands of years!?
If you are an astronaut, you know whether or not the problem has been fixed. You also know the risks involved.
This is regarded by folks at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD (where they design and engineer the Hubble and parts for it) as Servicing Mission 4. When I was last there in March, the scientist the designed and built the mass spectrometer for it told me that its current one is no longer working. It had actually outlived its expected age by around 50% I believe. Furthormore, this will be the last servicing mission for the Hubble. After that, the hopes is to have the new and much more powerful telescope flying. Some facts- GSFC is just on the outside of Washington, DC- it is a HUGE campus. I was lucky enough to be able to get a behind the scenes tour from where the build the hubble's twin for parts in an enormous clean room, to where they test satellites for launch, etc. They handle unmanned space missions here. They control Hubble in Baltimore from Johns Hopkins University.