[AccessD] Friday humour

Heenan, Lambert Lambert.Heenan at AIG.com
Fri Jun 10 15:54:37 CDT 2005


In Kansas they add Creationism to the school curriculum in order not to
offend one specific group of people. That doesn't make it right either.

On the whole though I agree with your comment. I especially do not like to
see politics being discussed in a software developer's group, but every rule
has its exceptions and pointing out the lunacy of the religions of this
world (not just Christina ones) is an exception for me.

Politicians can be voted out of office. Religious nuts want us to vote our
brains out of office. But of course they never say that they are willing to
give up all the benefits and comforts that the hateful world of science has
given them - like the internet where they can publish their rubbish to the
hearts content, where no paper and glue publisher would have touched it, and
the computers they use to do it with. This despite the fact that it is
heretical scientific research that made it all possible. Not one single
solitary advance in human technology has come out of the world of religion.
Stone tools, metal tools, agriculture, writing, you name it, they all came
out of human needs.

Lambert

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:03 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Friday humour


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'?


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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
>
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