Re: Scott Adams: Absolute loon (new revelations from "God's Debris")
- From: "Pip R. Lagenta" <morbiusatwork@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:50:19 -0800
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:56:39 -0500, r norman
<NotMyRealEmail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 18 Nov 2005 15:30:04 -0800, "Cyde Weys" <cydeweys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>Cyde Weys wrote:
>>> This book is so full of lies, misconceptions, and outright falsehoods
>>> that it's hilarious. Let's play a game and see how many we can find,
>>> okay? Then maybe we can send it to him in a big list and show him for
>>> the loon he is once and for all.
>>
>>One more I just stumbled upon, and boy is it a doozy.
>>
>>pg.61
>>------------------------
>>"Earth's moon, for example, has a certain probability of
>>coming toward the Earth and a certain probability of moving
>>in a straight line. The two probabilities are, by chance,
>>in balance. If gravity were a tugging force, the way we normally
>>think of it, there would be some sort of friction, slowing
>>the moon and eventually dragging it to Earth. But since
>>gravity is nothing more than probability, there is no friction
>>or tugging. The moon can orbit almost indefinitely because
>>its position is determined by probability, not by tugging or
>>pushing."
>>------------------------
>>
>>That's right, boys and girls, Scott Adams does not understand Newtonian
>>mechanics. That's the only possible way to explain why he doesn't
>>think that orbits work.
>>
>>And there actually are friction and tidal forces involved in the
>>orbiting that result in the Moon moving FARTHER from the Earth, not
>>closer. But Scott Adams couldn't be bothered to actually look any of
>>this up before making up his utter crap.
>>
>>I suspect that, if you had a few days with nothing else to do, you
>>could write a line-by-line refutation of EVERYTHING in this book.
>
>In a book where the author says he is deliberately making up
>outrageous things, you take this to be a statement of what he knows
>about the real world?
>
>You send that list to Scott and he will get a good laugh about it.
>"Boy, I really got those guys, didn't I!"
Are you saying, then, that Scott Adams wrote a book full of lies, that
he knows is full of lies, for the sole purpose of pissing off people
who get pissed off at lies?
.
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