Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Fri Jun 10 15:02:58 CDT 2005
Friends, In Woody's Lounge, we axe threads like this to avoid offending anyone, however misinformed they might be in their beliefs. Is there an equivalent rule in this list? I get very twitchy when conversations wander into the areas of religion and politics, since they tend to deteriorate into name calling and flames. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Heenan, Lambert [mailto:Lambert.Heenan at aig.com] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:49 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Friday humour Anyone care to tell us how the Earth Centric types explain stellar parallax? Or do they simply deny its existence as their various 'good books' refer to the 'fixed stars'? -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Elam, Debbie Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:39 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: RE: [AccessD] Friday humour No it does not throw it out the window, it just makes the lovely and simple orbital mechanics equations into monster equations that take a super computer to calculate with any proficiency. Of course those other planets just orbit around the sun while the whole mess orbits around the Earth ;-). That was the real reason it became obvious that the best method of calculation was to put the sun in the center of the system. The whole mess with the rings was to account for planetary movements. It is a little like the headaches caused when you try to take the Earth's total motion into account when compared to the motion of another star in the milky way galaxy which is all rotating around a cluster of stars in the galaxy center. Much more pleasant to break it into chunks and consider the solar system a single unit when talking about motion with respect to the galaxy. Debbie -----Original Message----- From: Don Bozarth [mailto:drboz at pacbell.net] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:25 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Friday humour Well, if the solar system is Earth centered, a lot of the math dealing with planetary motion goes right out the window... not to mention that little sniggle called gravity. The math of orbital mechanics suddenly disappears. Were all that math wrong, we could never have made it to the Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus those places manmade satellites have visited. Don B. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elam, Debbie" <DElam at jenkens.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 11:14 AM Subject: RE: [AccessD] Friday humour > Actually they are right. The whole thing comes down to perspective. > Of course the math is a heck of a lot easier if you simply consider > the sun the > center around which the solar system revolves. In this case as many others, > why not go with the simplest answer that gives the most correct predictions? > Why complicate the issue by insisting that a certain perspective has > to be maintained? Groan, no doubt they will call it proof. Of course > the reverse > is just as true. No one can prove that the sun revolves around the > Earth, but that is a minor detail. > > Debbie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Lawrence [mailto:accessd at shaw.ca] > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 1:00 PM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: [AccessD] Friday humour > > > Hi All: > > When first read I thought this was a joke... but I think it is for > real; which of course would make it more hilarious. Check this out: > http://www.catholicintl.com/epologetics/articles/science/geochallenge. > htm > > Jim > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > - JENKENS & GILCHRIST E-MAIL NOTICE - This transmission may be: (1) subject > to the Attorney-Client Privilege, (2) an attorney work product, or (3) > strictly confidential. 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