So, The End Of The World Starts Today!

Hasn’t the World ended yet??

The Jesus believers have been waiting over 2000 years for him to return so I suppose a week is not too long to wait. 😉

It struck Jim Trott’s father twice in the Vicar of Dibley. When asked how he felt afterwards, Jim replied simply ‘heavy!’.

Regards,

kev35

Wait until the storm has finished first! 😮

Never strikes twice.:)
(Never is adjustable, like Darkness)

Similarly, if you see lightning hit a Beach, go and dig in the strike zone.

Wait until the storm has finished first! 😮

Sorry sir! 😮

Our Weights department calculate and measure Mass.

True conversation in a meeting: –
Boffin….”This structure has a mass of 325kg”
Idiot in charge “What does it weigh?”
Boffin “325kg………within a few thousand feet of Earth in dry air”
Idiot in charge “(silence)” “Ok, next slide please”

Well, Wednesday night I did see a large long Pinky Red meteor, during one of my fag-breaks…beyond the compost heap in the Garden.
It covered probably 45% of the arc and was visible for say 2.5 / 3 seconds.

If it approached at 90 degrees it would have possibly made a dent. By the time it got here though, it would have been the size of a Hazelnut.

For those of you wanting to cross the Salt Plains of USA (Bonneville etc.) you are likely to find such Hazelnut sized Meteorites. They stand out like a sore thumb on the flat White ground.
Crack ’em open, because the heat/pressure combination sustained is highly likey to create a Diamond.

Similarly, if you see lightning hit a Beach, go and dig in the strike zone. The heat of hte flash metls the Sand into glass, and in the most beautiful shapes, like Coral that has hit the random button. They too are worth a fortune…lottery winning size fortunes for the big uns.

Earth…is it getting heavier or lighter?
Well, add the falling rocks from space, subtract the metal junk we’ve put up there……or should we – because that eventually falls back? Apart from those farty little Gemini probes.

it’s very ironic you use that argument , as it was recently discovered the original calculation to determine earths weight ….waaaass

wait for it !!!!

wrong

and it had to be re calculated

Given that the original calculation was made by one Nevil Maskeyne in 1774 it’s not all that much of a surprise, really.

CD – don’t confuse weight with mass…

Sorry sir! 😮

CD – don’t confuse weight with mass…:)

Tornado – in most things it can be taken as 99.9% correct out of the mouths of babes and sucklings! So the degree of nonsense you have been posting here does little to reflect your 99.9% acceptance of the truth and accuracy of science.

Following my own research into your position on the accuracy of science…..I would say that a new theory has been formed! :diablo:

I can only find one recent recalculation of the Earth’s mass (from 2000) which states:

That scientists estimate that the Earth’s mass is now 5,972,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes; which is about 10,000,000,000 tonnes less than the best previous estimate.

By my calculations, I make that a ‘loss’ of 0.000000167% of the Earth’s mass.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/732018.stm

One of those responsible for the new estimate described the error as ‘a huge embarrassment for modern physics’…

…I doubt those making ‘religious’ calculations would ever show such humility if their predictions turn out to be not quite so accurate! :rolleyes:

Incidentally the constant ‘G’ that allows us to estimate the mass of the Earth was first measured by Henry Cavendish in 1798; it hasn’t changed radically (<1%) since then.

Having read the recent exchanges can your position be summarised as follows?: – scientific discoveries and conclusions by their very nature are fallible, therefore it is pointless to accept any of them.

very correct !! to accept they are correct and no further research was necesary by its very nature would be the end for science

science is only probability and theories till further research proves otherwise

in most things it can be taken as 99.9% correct

but in a lot of cases it is theory till further research proves otherwise

funny !! a while back it was 100% that science was right now you admit it is fallible !!

so with that quote of your own it leaves you in the same camp as me !!

so what percentage of wrong to right do you want 60/40?? 70/30??

Please point out the post where I said that science was ‘100% right’ (I may have posted that but I can’t find it).

As for percentages that depends entirely what branch of science (or engineering) that you’re talking about and what in particular within that science; I don’t think anybody is claiming that we know everything about our oceans or our rainforests, the way it will be presented by science, as opposed to the media, is that a species is thought to be extinct, again, big difference.

As for knowing ‘everything about space’ no scientist would ever claim that; I believe some religions have but they don’t have to prove anything do they.

…it was recently discovered the original calculation to determine earths weight ….waaaass

wait for it !!!!

wrong

and it had to be re calculated

I didn’t know that the weight of the Earth was ‘wrong’ but since you’ve chosen that as a specific example do you have details of how ‘wrong’ the calculation was?

Is the earth half as heavy as we thought? Twice as heavy? No. I haven’t looked it up but if it is more than 0.1% of the mass of the Earth I’d be very surprised!

Having read the recent exchanges can your position be summarised as follows?: – scientific discoveries and conclusions by their very nature are fallible, therefore it is pointless to accept any of them.

it is possible to work out how heavy the Earth and the Sun are.

That’s how we know how much fuel the Sun has left.

!

it’s very ironic you use that argument , as it was recently discovered the original calculation to determine earths weight ….waaaass

wait for it !!!!

wrong

and it had to be re calculated

tornado 64. In our lifetime,I agree but providing we don’t wipe ourselves out, we only have to look at the last 100 yrs to see the advances of technology.
Flight being just one, how the power to put into an aircraft has changed from piston, to jet, to rocket, scram jets, with the ever reaching out for space flight to become faster, I can see one day man being probably anywhere in the presently known Universe.
I know it’s an old Chestnut, but one never knows what Area 51 is/has developed.

Lincoln .7

I.M.H.O. when man is capable of true Space Travel, and reaches the many other galaxies, we may find out, and seperate truth from fiction, “THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE”, we, just have to find it.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

the fact is we will never know we still don’t know what is in our deapest oceans or in rain forrests

only last week a species of rat turned up that was believed extinct for over 100yrs

and we like to pretend we know everything about space !!

No, it can’t! Just because science can be wrong it doesn’t make it 50/50 whether it is right! :rolleyes:

And, on balance, I’d rather listen to science (fallible though it is) than anything else.

funny !! a while back it was 100% that science was right now you admit it is fallible !!

so with that quote of your own it leaves you in the same camp as me !!

so what percentage of wrong to right do you want 60/40?? 70/30??

It’s a unreal feeling once upon a time they were two a penny, any still flying?. guess there must be.
Jim

:incoln .7

Thats funny, my Proctologist I saw Monday said mine was normal:diablo:
Jim.

Lincoln .7

Didn’t know you had a Percival Proctor!

Uranus is vast

Thats funny, my Proctologist I saw Monday said mine was normal:diablo:
Jim.

Lincoln .7