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#724496
NoAstronomer
Ha Ha Ha Ha...
... the most recent 'experiment' Malcolm cites was conducted in 1925!!!
Ha Ha Ha ...
Crap, I think I just wet myself.
10/17/2008 8:48:47 PM
#724506
Nihlum
"Airey G 1871 Proc. Royal Sc. London v 20 p.35 [“Airey’s Failure” to detect any movement of the earth – it was the aether moving!]"
LOL
10/17/2008 8:53:43 PM
#724508
breakerslion
No, it proves you're a gullible sap, or a cretin who will cite discredited sources as long as it supports your lame position.
10/17/2008 8:55:24 PM
#724509
aaa
Oh, for crying out loud.
10/17/2008 8:56:11 PM
#724510
Dotyrs
NASA wants a word with you...
10/17/2008 8:58:37 PM
#724513
John
Another of the hundreds of cranks who are convinced they've disproved Einstein. There's a whole cottage industry of them.
10/17/2008 9:02:23 PM
#724542
Jezebel's Evil Sister
"Experiments" and crank theories debunked nearly a century ago. Is that all you've got?
10/17/2008 9:25:12 PM
#724650
Reverend Jeremiah
The "aether"?!?
:-D
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA...that was tossed out of serious scientific circles like what????.... 100+ years ago??
LOL, its Cretins like this who really do credit to the Bible. They follow every verse literally.
10/17/2008 10:02:57 PM
#724657
anonymous
Doesn't disprove theistic evolution, anyway.
Let me see these 4 arguments..
WTF it's a video? What a noob!
http://stationaryearth.org/?page_id=7
*while listening*
He appears to be invoking some sort of.. fucking ether?
He's talking about a metaphor where a lake is the universe and a small boat is earth.
"Put your hand in the water"
THERE IS NO WATER STUPID
He goes on to discuss the Michaelson-Morley experiment, which was supposed to prove or disprove the existence of the luminiferous ether.
Then Einstein's theory of relativity. And the ether was disproved. Well, duh.
And the rest doesn't make any damn sense, at least partially BECAUSE IT'S A FUCKING VIDEO. FUCK THAT SHIT.
Anyway, he seems to assume the ether exists and that makes it all... I couldn't even follow.
10/17/2008 10:06:30 PM
#724717
Portly
Malcolm Bowden - Consulting Civil and Structural Engineer (semi-retired).
'nuff said.
Wonder if he knows "Dr." Garvan Ellison?
10/17/2008 10:32:25 PM
#724797
Rusty_Professor
@Dotyrs
If these people are anything at all like the Flat Earth Society, they'll just feel that NASA is big conspiracy. That is being paid for by the government to brain wash people into believing that the earth moves.
10/17/2008 11:14:35 PM
#724799
Old Viking
Whoa! Thanks for catching me up, Malcolm.
10/17/2008 11:15:03 PM
#724839
Canadiest
it's bullshit, the experiments are bullshit.
what's this prove, creationists prefer bullshit to reality.
you will never disprove evolution because the theory weeds out bullshit
10/17/2008 11:41:21 PM
#724889
Mrs. Antichrist
The video is hilarious. I'm only part-way through it, and I already know where he's going with his little "tug-boat VS large ship" scenario...
Edit: Bwaahahhaha, just as I suspected -- the Michelson-Morley experiments? Are you fucking kidding me? The only thing those experiments proved was that the "aether" hypothesis was complete bullshit.
This idiot's whole argument is based upon the assumption that "aether" exists, when it was disproved over a century ago.
But, hey, this guy is wearing a dress shirt and tie, so he MUST be right!
Edit 2: I love how he brings up the theory of relativity and claims that it's "self-contradicting", then pauses for a moment and seems to realize he doesn't actually know anything about the theory of relativity, so he quickly changes the subject.
@anonymous: Trust me, you're not alone. His arguments are so scientifically backwards that it's almost impossible to follow them.
10/18/2008 12:10:22 AM
#724975
Mister Spak
Why does this destroy your credibility? We have the mars rover. We win.
10/18/2008 1:28:59 AM
#725081
Tony
Aether? Fucking aether?!?!
That stuff (the medium light was supposed to travel through) was disproved a long long time ago.
Bloody hell. What next? Epicycles? A firmament?
How, in this day and age, can a mind get so royally screwed up? Seriously, this dude should sue whoever did this to him. I think it qualifies as mental abuse.
10/18/2008 3:45:04 AM
#725224
Rallymodeller
Eppur, si muove -- and you suck.
10/18/2008 6:52:44 AM
#725239
The distant stars are just travelling a extreme speeds, and have rather peculiar orbits...
10/18/2008 7:19:45 AM
#725273
Xotan
It proves that those who believe in a stationary earth live on another planet to the on on which I live - a planet of fools.
10/18/2008 8:27:50 AM
#1390866
It is intersting to note that because they tried to do away with the Eather NSA has proposed dark matter = Eather but under another name. Further visit thr NASA web site and see the qiuestioons being asked about why thepioneer space craft are being turned from theit course. They are asking if it isn't dark matter which = Eather.
It's about time you men who are clearly still wet behind your ears start asking questions and stop regurgitating what you have studied. Show some respect. After all you knew nothing about what this man is talking about until he said it.
4/9/2012 12:04:22 PM
#1390876
Anon
If not Poe:
@#1390866: Your statement is incorrect on so many levels that I cannot describe them all here, so please educate yourself. I recommend the Wikipedia articles on dark matter as a starting point, and also the article on the Pioneer anomaly (which is entirely explained by each spacecraft being hotter on the side nearest its generator and has nothing to do with dark matter or any physics beyond Maxwell's equations).
Also, your personal attacks are quite misplaced. I am a postdoctoral scholar in an astrophysics department. Asking questions about physics is how I have made my living for the last eight years. And what makes you think that I (or any of the other commenters here), am a man? You may not have heard, but there are girls on the internet.
Re. Bowden: I have no need to show respect to someone whose Arguments Are Invalid and whose statements are disproven four separate ways in every freshman astronomy class. We have Doppler shift, planetary motion, parallax, and stellar aberration. He is wrong.
4/9/2012 1:00:05 PM
#1534858
Quantum Mechanic
The only proof I see is that it is far too easy for idiots to find food.
5/3/2013 4:17:54 PM
#1534875
But what if the universe was planned to evolve?
5/3/2013 5:13:43 PM
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