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Is geocentrism making a comeback?

 
 
 
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More importantly, how the hell did anyone talk Kate Mulgrew into narrating this crap? I mean, she has to have noticed that this script is trying to "teach the controversy" about geocentrism.
 
Underseer said:


More importantly, how the hell did anyone talk Kate Mulgrew into narrating this crap? I mean, she has to have noticed that this script is trying to "teach the controversy" about geocentrism.
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The same way they got all of those physicists to participate: Lie about what the movie is about, record hours worth of material, and selectively edit it to the point where it seems like your views are supported.

http://time.com/54684/star-trek-kate-mulgrew-the-principle-film/
On Tuesday, the actress took to Facebook to offer an explanation on how she became involved in the film: essentially, she was duped.
In the trailer, Mulgrew tells audiences, “Everything we think we know about our universe is wrong.” Ironically, it now seems she feels every thing she says in the film is wrong.
Mulgrew is not the first person to express regret for involvement in the film. Physicist Lawrence Krauss, who is also featured in the docu, said in an article for Slate that the film took statements he made out of context.
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Geocentrism is proved by the lack of an Ether wind. The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment means either geocentrism or Relativity. Since relativity makes no sense, (for starters einstein wasn't a believer in Jesus!) then that means geocentrism is the only valid alternative and we all need to return to worshipping the Roman Catholic way. Or go to hell. We should also simply return to the good old days before the Enlightenment.

SLD
 
SLD said:
Geocentrism is proved by the lack of an Ether wind. The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment means either geocentrism or Relativity. Since relativity makes no sense, (for starters einstein wasn't a believer in Jesus!) then that means geocentrism is the only valid alternative and we all need to return to worshipping the Roman Catholic way. Or go to hell. We should also simply return to the good old days before the Enlightenment.

SLD
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Hmmm, so it is really an ether or proposition?

I was so clueless when we did the MM experiment in optics class, I really wish I could time travel some times...
 
Geocentrism is discredited nonsense.

SLD said:
Geocentrism is proved by the lack of an Ether wind. The null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment means either geocentrism or Relativity. Since relativity makes no sense, (for starters einstein wasn't a believer in Jesus!) then that means geocentrism is the only valid alternative and we all need to return to worshipping the Roman Catholic way. Or go to hell. We should also simply return to the good old days before the Enlightenment.

SLD
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Sorry - but you're basically 100% wrong. Relativity has been confirmed over and over and over. If you use GPS for location tracking in your car or your smartphone, you're making use of relativistic corrections all the time.

And why does Einstein not being a believer in a bronze-age mythical figure, for whom there is ZERO proof, mean that Relativity is wrong? Conclusion is not related to premise....you are committing a logical fallacy.

Frankly....there is no jebus, there is no heaven or hell, the bible is a collection of evil barbarism which espouses slavery, rape and the killing of children. Geocentrism is just Not Even WrongTM.
 
Oh, yeah.....forgot this..... http://www.geocentrismdebunked.org/

The idea of geocentrism is laughable - right up there with flat-earthers. Even that most horrible of superstitious cults, the Roman Catholic Child-abuser Church gave up on geeocentrism almost 200 years ago.

It’s over. It has been over for a very long time. But, like a gathering of die hards who think Appomattox was just a temporary set-back for the South, this crop of geocentrists operate in a kind of time warp.

In 1820, the Catholic Church officially closed the debate: Catholics are perfectly free to accept and teach modern cosmological views concerning the motion of the earth while rejecting geocentrism. In 1822, the Church went even further and declared penalties for not allowing the publication of books that present the motion of the earth as a logical conclusion of science.
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More at the link.
 
My g/f hates it when she detects my ether wind.

Anyway, religion continues to lose on every front. I think the pendulum has swung about as far in that direction as it ever will anymore, and with the loss of money, power and prestige, the powers that be will continue to become louder and their arguments even crazier as time goes on. The fight is far from over, though. The animal is wounded, but not dead, and in it's death throes it may take more down with it before it expires.
 
phands said:
Sorry - but you're basically 100% wrong. Relativity has been confirmed over and over and over. If you use GPS for location tracking in your car or your smartphone, you're making use of relativistic corrections all the time.

And why does Einstein not being a believer in a bronze-age mythical figure, for whom there is ZERO proof, mean that Relativity is wrong? Conclusion is not related to premise....you are committing a logical fallacy.

Frankly....there is no jebus, there is no heaven or hell, the bible is a collection of evil barbarism which espouses slavery, rape and the killing of children. Geocentrism is just Not Even WrongTM.
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Poe's Law claims another victim!
 
There are people that believe the Earth is the center of the universe?
 
phands said:
Well, unless you know the poster, and in the spirit of Poe's law, how do you know?
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Probably the appeal to respect for authority that had little enough respect for Einstein to not capitalize his name... Only satirists do that.
 
Keith&Co. said:
Probably the appeal to respect for authority that had little enough respect for Einstein to not capitalize his name... Only satirists do that.
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Dunno....overall, the post seemed too dumb to be satire, even taking into account that the poster is a merkin, which usually rules out sophistications like satire, and often even its little brother, sarcasm.

I speak as a Scot, born and bred in Glasgow, possibly the most satirical and sarcastic people on earth. ;)
 
It may be stupid, but it's certainly not too stupid to be satire. The whole point of satire is to make fun of those who would believe [whatever] to be true.

If you're going to satirize the position of the online fundamentalist apologist, the bar is set very, very low.
 
The world is a flat disc resting on the back of four giant elephants who are standing on the back of a giant turtle that is swimming through space, m'kay?

Honestly...
 
The turtle moves...

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Keith&Co. said:
It may be stupid, but it's certainly not too stupid to be satire. The whole point of satire is to make fun of those who would believe [whatever] to be true.
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and to make fun of people who react to satire thinking it's real. :p
 
Mulgrew played a science savi starship captain, she is really not a science savi starship captain.


There are exceptions, most actors/actrsses seem as dumb as rocks.


On the Late Show last week Letterman politely poked at a woman who stared in the Noah movie why was the story only a few pages in the bible. She replied, the writers did nothave time or space to write out the whole story. When asked did god inspire it, she replied it wasn't like Noah heard a voice...
 
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