Author Topic: "That's no moon..." (Read 5498 times)

AJ Dual · « **Reply #25 on:** July 26, 2007, 05:55:17 AM »

Yes, the "illusion of gravity" is a more apt term than "artificial gravity"...

K Frame · « **Reply #26 on:** July 26, 2007, 06:03:46 AM »

Dammit... I saw a movie just recently that used spinning sections of a space ship to simulate gravity...

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WHAT THE HELL WAS IT? Huh?

It's been driving me nuts since I posted that note last night!

Sergeant Bob · « **Reply #27 on:** July 26, 2007, 06:10:57 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 26, 2007, 05:03:46 AM

Dammit... I saw a movie just recently that used spinning sections of a space ship to simulate gravity...

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WHAT THE HELL WAS IT? Huh?

It's been driving me nuts since I posted that note last night!

2010?

K Frame · « **Reply #28 on:** July 26, 2007, 06:12:35 AM »

Quote from: Sergeant Bob on July 26, 2007, 05:10:57 AM

2010?

YES!

God, thank you. It was driving me insane!

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #29 on:** July 26, 2007, 02:49:15 PM »

Also 2001.

DJJ · « **Reply #30 on:** July 26, 2007, 05:03:34 PM »

I should clarify: I could swear I was told that Earth's spinning is what generates its gravity. Which is wrong. I would swear it was in a "filmstrip" in about the 3rd grade.

K Frame · « **Reply #31 on:** July 26, 2007, 05:04:52 PM »

Quote from: DJJ on July 26, 2007, 04:03:34 PM

I should clarify: I could swear I was told that Earth's spinning is what generates its gravity. Which is wrong. I would swear it was in a "filmstrip" in about the 3rd grade.

Did the same filmstrip tell you that earthquakes were caused by giants bowling underground? laugh

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #32 on:** July 26, 2007, 05:17:46 PM »

Have they consulted the rods of Ra?

K Frame · « **Reply #33 on:** July 26, 2007, 05:21:47 PM »

Quote from: fistful on July 26, 2007, 04:17:46 PM

Have they consulted the rods of Ra?

You don't consult the Rods of Ra...

THEY share with you what THEY want you to know, when THEY want you to know it.

And not a moment before!

Brad Johnson · « **Reply #34 on:** July 26, 2007, 06:09:03 PM »

Do not mock the Rods of Ra.

Brad

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #35 on:** July 26, 2007, 07:27:15 PM »

May the rods be merciful. I was wrong to speak so carelessly. I beg their forgiveness.

French G. · « **Reply #36 on:** July 26, 2007, 07:33:47 PM »

Hmmm, mass is the source of gravity. Finally, a scientific explanation for why skinny sailors are attracted to fat chicks. grin

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #37 on:** July 26, 2007, 07:40:17 PM »

Oh. I thought the women were just controlling them through intimidation. Or with rods of Ra.

HankB · « **Reply #38 on:** July 27, 2007, 04:01:43 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 26, 2007, 04:04:52 PM

. . . Did the same filmstrip tell you that earthquakes were caused by giants bowling underground?

At one time - somewhere around second grade - I thought you got thunder when the angels were bowling.

I mentioned this to one of my teachers, and she was not amused.

She was even less amused when I referred to snow as "God's Dandruff."

That's when I learned that nuns have no sense of humor.

K Frame · « **Reply #39 on:** July 27, 2007, 04:51:31 AM »

Yeah, don't joke with the penguins. They'll go upside your head with a wooden stick.

Phyphor · « **Reply #40 on:** July 27, 2007, 11:59:14 AM »

Ok, given the mentioning of "Mutineers Moon" by David Weber (Check baen.com, at the library section for that book, you can download the ebook for free, in many formats) I MUST ask:

What gun for Dahak?

K Frame · « **Reply #41 on:** July 28, 2007, 05:36:16 AM »

Mutineers on the Moon...

Is that anything like Whalers on the Moon?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M4kYZnnhRqo

AJ Dual · « **Reply #42 on:** July 28, 2007, 07:45:52 AM »

Here's something weird on Mars...

Although one's gut reaction is to think this is a Martian version of that huge sinkhole in Mexico that's so huge that base jumpers can sky-dive inside of it, and it's over 100 stories deep.

Its proximity to some of the gigantic extinct shield volcanoes suggests some sort of lava tube or cave with a collapsed roof.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/121/mars-dark-hole.htm

MechAg94 · « **Reply #43 on:** July 28, 2007, 11:00:33 AM »

Spoiler: Not "Mutineer's on the Moon", Mutineer's Moon. In the book, the moon is a real big spaceship disguised as a moon.

K Frame · « **Reply #44 on:** July 28, 2007, 04:25:44 PM »

That's easy.

It's the great stone face's belly button.

MechAg94 · « **Reply #45 on:** July 30, 2007, 10:42:51 AM »

Speaking of whales and the Moon...

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/south-park/top-10-best-tv-moments-of-2006-2718.aspx
Mexican Space Program (MASA) Sends Whale to the Moon

Easily one of the funniest South Park episodes ever.

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Easily the most ridiculous moment on television this year. The short explanation: Fooled by technicians at a Sea World-type park, the boys are convinced that one of the trained Orca whales is an alien who needs to be sent to its home planet. The boys steal the whale from the park, take it to Mexico, where Mexico's shoddy space program agrees to send the whale into space for a couple hundred bucks. And then they do.

There are lots of little parody items mixed in as well. When they break in to steal the whale, all the kids are in black face, except for Token (the only black kid) who is wearing white face. Cheesy

Made fun of animal rights groups as well.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/south_park/videos/season_9/index.jhtml
on the 3rd row down.

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #46 on:** July 30, 2007, 02:49:05 PM »

Quote from: mbs357 on July 24, 2007, 02:31:17 PM

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=99123
Pretty wacky article. But the things it points our do raise good questions.
The gravity statement is...just stupid though.

Figured I'd go along with the couple of conspiracy threads going about today and present ye all with this.

Where can I get some of that *expletive deleted*it he's smokin? Man, its gotta be good.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #47 on:** July 31, 2007, 05:44:58 AM »

Quote from: MechAg94 on July 30, 2007, 09:42:51 AM

http://www.buddytv.com/articles/south-park/top-10-best-tv-moments-of-2006-2718.aspx
Mexican Space Program (MASA) Sends Whale to the Moon

I just realized it might be a minor homage to "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", where the whale is brought into existence by the Infinite Improbability Drive, and goes, "SPLAT!", just as he's wondering if "The ground would be his friend&"

So I think I'll retract my prior theory about the "Mars Hole", and I now say it's most likely a whale impact crater.

Strings · « **Reply #48 on:** August 01, 2007, 01:23:59 AM »

>God, thank you. It was driving me insane!<

Short trip backwards. And Sergent Bob is NOT God... Tongue

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