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22skatingbasser wrote:Colonel Panic wrote:Actually, both the Earth and the Sun are moving. In the grand scheme of the Universe, neither one is stationary and the gravitational pull of each is acting on the other to a more or lesser extent. So I suppose an argument could be made that either is true, depending on your point of view.
Neither one is stationary, but one still very much revolves around the other. If anything I'd say an argument could be made that neither is true, not either. But that argument would be crap too.
It is determined by the intertial reference frame. If we choose the standard, our solar system, the earth is rotating around the sun that is stationary. In the inertial reference frame of the galaxy, the sun and earth are both moving, but the earth's motion has two angular components whereas the sun's motion has one (not counting the rotation about either's axis).
Jon
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23Yeah you're right. An argument could be made that anything is true, but that doesn't mean it'd be a good argument.
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24greg wrote:Source-
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/scien ... 1183867200
While scientific literacy has doubled over the past two decades, only 20 to 25 percent of Americans are "scientifically savvy and alert," he [Dr. Jon D. Miller] said in an interview.
STF wrote:That's not too bad, actually.
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25I just sent this to my best friend's dad, who is one of the most intelligent and wise people I know.
His response:
Nicely said, LOTGSSRM.
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His response:
last of the great super smart rennaisance men wrote:Yes, Alex. Neither of us is surprised at this. We are the best argument against the omnipotence and supreme knowledge of God. How could He have been so stupid as to create us?
Nicely said, LOTGSSRM.
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Itchy McGoo wrote:I would like to be a "shoop-shoop" girl in whatever band Alex Maiolo is in.
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27Eating Noddemix wrote:The sun shines out of my anus.
The band name Solar Anus is already taken. But good try.
You had me at Sex Traction Aunts Getting Vodka-Rogered On Glass Furniture