If there is no air in space, how do they use rockets to position the space shuttle?, page 13
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reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 01:53 AM by verylowfrequency
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I believe enough different and good explanations have been provided that if he bothered studying our responses he now knows the truth that he was wrong, but for some reason is unwilling or unable to admit it because of some type of psychosis and he is afraid or overwhelmed.

Why else would he post the same argument on page 1 as page 13? You can only post the same inept response so many times before nobody even cares to listen anymore.

At first I thought I was dealing with a borderline autistic intelligent 12 year old or some teenager with limited social interaction with his peers in his pre-adolescent years. He's obviously not stupid, but has some serious hurdles to overcome. I think he gets it, but don't expect him to ever admit it here.


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reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 09:46 AM by windwaker
I can't believe this thread is still alive.

Don't you think they already tested this already? I know there have been astronauts that have demonstrated to the little 2nd graders watching from their science classes Newton's Third Law Of Motion is true.

If you are in a spacesuit in space, and you throw a ball, you will fly backwards because of force from the ball flying away from your glove.

YouTube Video About Astronauts And Newton's Third Law

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

You know, I know someone who used to work at NASA, and if you even mentioned your idea to him, not only would he laugh at you and think that you were strange, he would never talk to you again.

It's nice to believe in God, but your stubborness really is an embarrassment to all believers.

You are becoming the poster child for Atheism.


reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 12:54 PM by Manasseh



reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 03:05 PM by Bhadhidar
Originally posted by Manasseh

Two things.

They are listening to lightning crack and pop. That is sound waves.

Second, how do radio wave (electric in nature) travel through a vacuum when there is nothing to conduct the electromagnetic wave?

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Two Things:


Lightning is Electricity, an electric discharge, as you would say: "Electric in nature".

Note that they said that they were listening to the crackle and pop Of The Lightning, not of Thunder.


Thunder is the product of sound waves.



Both electricity and radio waves are part of the Electromagnetic Wave Spectrum

What the scientists were listening to were the radio signals generated by the lightning.



Second: electricity, radio waves and visible light are all a part of the same Electromagnetic Wave Spectrum

The light you see from a glowing incandescent lamp is the result of a wire filiment glowing white hot because of the electrical current flowing through it.

The filiment will continue to glow as long as electricity flows through it and as long as it does not burn out; which occurs very rapidly if the bulb is broken; thus breaking the vacuum contained within the bulb.

When the bulb is broken, or if it leaks, air gets into the bulb, and that air allows the hot filiment to burn out.



Since the light from the glowing filiment of the light bulb has no difficulty reaching your eyes through the vacuum contained in the bulb, and since light, and radio waves are part of the same electromagnetic wave spectrum, do you now understand that radio waves do not need air for conduction?

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reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 03:45 PM by Bhadhidar
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So why doesn't that fiery chariot catch the canopy on fire?



You wanna talk about a flat Earth?

If some of the physics I've read about is true Time itself is a merely a convenient fiction of the inferior human mind; it does not actually exist as a discrete, discernable quantity.

(Warning: Some may want to cover their ears and start humming their own personal "Happy Song" at this point!)


If Time doesn't really exist, then Space (as in "distance") cannot exist either.

Instead of a "flat" Earth, we're actually a conceptualized singularity!


reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 05:57 PM by weedwhacker
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Val, you guys are doing a fine job of attempting to educate....

Maybe the problem is.....some people just need a very personal, one-on-one description, and education.

It's like....I couldn't have ever taught anyone to fly, unless I WAS THERE, personally, to teach.

This is what is considered as difference between 'Ground School' and what's know as 'Practical' training.

You can teach a person much better, if you can discuss the topic face-to-face. Teaching in a Forum such as this, is much more difficult.

THEN, in the 'Practical' portion....you actually use the skills learned from the 'Ground School'....and this re-inforces the lesson.

OK....hope this helps.....


reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 10:00 PM by weedwhacker
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Anon....THIS is what we have....many of us...been trying ot explain, to the OP.

I'll expand on your 'spacesuit' example, to hopefully make it better.

IF you, in our 'spacesuit'...let's call it an EVA suit, since it's more appropriate.....NOW, if you in the EVA suit....you managed to bring a heavy rock, or any other weight out with you....NOW, there you are!

OK....YOU, and everything that is on or part of you, has MASS. Every Mass has a C/G...a Center of Gravity.

You take that 'rock', and 'throw' it.....well, it has MASS....and the act of 'thowing' it means it imparts a momentum on you, as you toss it away.

Your C/G is close to our middle....but your arm is extended, as you toss the rock.....so that is known as a 'moment' in physics.

Back to Newton....the 'throwing' of the rock results in an equal and opposite reaction.....

NOW....here's the part to understand....the rock, thrown from the Astronaut's hand, was not near his C/G....so, this will result in a spinning motion, of the Astronaut.

(Remember Newton?)

NOW....if this Astronaut wishes to throw rocks, he/she does so at their risk.....because of what I just described.

IF you are standing on the surface of an alien planet.....in your EVA suit....then that emans there is a gravity, of some sort....

If you are floating in space, in your EVA suit....then it is different!!!

IF you can't figure out the difference, then go back to school!!!


reply posted on 17-8-2008 @ 10:19 PM by weedwhacker
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Fuggle....that would mean, we start a NEW thread!!

So, now it's up to YOU!!!

Good Luck!!!


reply posted on 18-8-2008 @ 03:07 AM by verylowfrequency
Originally posted by Manasseh

It's all a big conspiracy to keep the masses in the dark about the heavens that God controls.


God may control the heavens, but he has given us the ability to begin to explore them.

So tell me how does god control the Heavens that you know about that is being kept from us?

God showed us that we can float (metaphor) on the air like birds and 105 years ago we took to the sky.

God has given us the ability to understand what lies beyond our atmosphere and we learned to orbit the earth, send men to the moon, spacecraft and robots to other planets. If god did not want us to do that we'd still be staring at the sky like the apes unable to see what lies beyond our naked vision.

Every technology we learn and every new understanding was built into us by God. We are biological learning machines and everyday we have the ability to see or do what no man has ever done before.

God has given you the ability to come along for the ride and we all welcome you.

Take a ride in an airplane if you haven't yet and look at the earth and know that for thousands of years no man could ever do that - you are lucky to know such things - thank God for our understanding that makes it so.

Take a trip to Kennedy Space Center tour the facilities and look at the Saturn 5 rocket that sent the men to the moon and watch a live rocket launch, or a Space Shuttle Launch before they quit flying them.

Or come up with 200k and take a ride on
Virgin Galactic and look at mother earth from orbit yourself.

It is all real my friend and you can taste any of it you want to because God made it available to you. You just have to go out an experience and learn what you want. It's all there for most of us that are able to post on the internet anyway.


reply posted on 18-8-2008 @ 01:00 PM by weedwhacker
reply to post by verylowfrequency



Star for you, VLF!

I know that I comprehend how space travel works....it's not (yet) as you see it portrayed on TV or in films.

Remembering my first visit to the KSC museum.....absolutely stunned, I was. As VLF mentioned, there is a real Saturn V there, on its side. It was built because there were supposed to be three more missions, after Apollo 17....but Vietnam kinda got in the way.....budgets were cut, and so on.

So, this thing was built, but never flew....hence the museum.

Same with the NASM here in DC.....there is a LM here, on display.

Never flew, but was built.

In case you're wondering....what you see are not the COMPLETE spacecraft, of course. Just as when you see a car or an airplane in a museum, the oil and fuel are removed....sometimes the engines too....depends.
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