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#939501
How do you know more than they do?
4/14/2009 12:31:10 PM
#939522
JohnTheAtheist
Oh, I'm sorry, bigbrain apparently is smarter then all the folks over at NASA. My bad. What a douche.
4/14/2009 12:59:53 PM
#939524
speccy4i
I love the repetition of 'therefore', it makes me picture him crying whilst he types it because nobody listens to him.
And why is it that all the intelligent people that can pick the holes in Nasa's theories and spot the errors in movies spend all their time whining on the internet rather than doing something about it?
4/14/2009 1:04:30 PM
#939526
Clown
Of course they can. Triangulation, radar, radio signals... Too complicated for you, kiddo. Go back to school for a year. Or twelve...
4/14/2009 1:08:49 PM
#939536
David B.
When Voyager 2 reached Saturn in 1981, it had been travelling through space for four years, was moving at 54
thousand MPH and had racked up an impressive 1.24 billion miles on the clock.
If was also off target by 41 miles, i.e. a little less than 3 seconds out.
When you can sink a 500 mile long putt first time, then you get to criticize.
www.time.com
4/14/2009 1:26:17 PM
#939539
Rallymodeller
Someone's angry that their job application to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory was turned down...
4/14/2009 1:30:19 PM
#939591
Katsuro
Random internet commentators always know better than the experts!
4/14/2009 2:40:23 PM
#939602
Zits
Tempus is cruel to Bigbrain!
4/14/2009 2:51:28 PM
#939666
G. Fieendish
Er, Global Tracking Network, & triangulation of said spacecraft by said interlinked tracking stations, via the minute differences in the Doppler shifted signal...
In short, ever heard of Baseline Interfereotomy...?
4/14/2009 4:23:45 PM
#939677
Dark_Lord_Prime
You repeatedly calling them "buffoons" does not change the reality that they are, in fact, rocket scientists.
4/14/2009 4:53:08 PM
#939697
naturally_deselected
AS REGARDS THEIR BULLET
4/14/2009 5:44:18 PM
#939785
Dr. Razark
18,000+ people.
Not counting thousands more working outside the gates.
And that's just at Johnson Space Center. There's a few centers scattered around the country. Yeah, I'd say that we have more than enough folks working on the problem to get it figured out.
And what exactly was it _you_ do for a living?
4/14/2009 8:37:59 PM
#939822
aaa
I see you can't understand big numbers.
4/14/2009 10:26:35 PM
#939904
dg
@Tempus: FTW. And now I want to read a fantasy story in that setting...
4/15/2009 4:20:53 AM
#939996
jsonitsac
Kepler's Laws, learn them.
4/15/2009 6:47:38 AM
#940082
Antichrist
Yes, people who spend 8 years of their lives learning about this shit and the rest of their careers working on it are 'buffoons' when compared to a basement troll who types bullshit onto the web.
4/15/2009 9:36:16 AM
#940084
Table Rock
Ah, the old If-I-can't-figure-it-out-then-no-one-else-can argument.
4/15/2009 9:38:20 AM
#940198
They use their secret magic, know as "math". Shhhh. Do not say it out loud!
4/15/2009 12:54:42 PM
#940215
Grigadil
@ Tempus:
Unfortunately, your very good idea has already been used by Jack Vance. The Relict, iirc, published in the collection Eight Fantasms and Magicks.
@bigassbraindrain, u r stooopid.
4/15/2009 1:10:47 PM
#940359
WMDKitty
I'll freely admit I have no clue what he's talking about, here -- I'm not a rocket scientist. Neither, apparently, is "bigbrain".
4/15/2009 3:35:53 PM
#940421
Dinomancer
Jeeze... If only that had equipment somewhere in earth's orbit, something like.... I don't know, some kind of thing that could bounce a radio signal around... Maybe like a network of them... Yeah, those would be useful...
4/15/2009 5:44:24 PM
#940915
D4vidH4mm3r
Dude. "They don't know" and "they don't know".
Of course they know. With enough math, you always know.
4/16/2009 9:57:54 AM
#942077
solomongrundy
That's why we use the expression 'rocket science'.
4/19/2009 1:19:42 AM
#942508
G. Fieendish
Re:Grigadil's post
Alternatively, this could be a inhabitant of a Chaos realm/dimension, from some of Michael Moorcock's books...
4/19/2009 10:16:39 PM
#942509
G. Fieendish
Double post, sorry
4/19/2009 10:17:00 PM
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