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"Gravity Is A Hoax" - by Tom Tomorrow (Original Post) kpete Feb 2022 OP
BIG BUNGEE! underpants Feb 2022 #1
gravity is just a theory kiri Feb 2022 #19
"more attractive theories with genuine gravamen and spiritual gravitas." kiri Feb 2022 #21
I was once told that gravity was scientist's way of explaining God pushing us down . . . AndyS Feb 2022 #2
More accurate to say it's Satan pulling us down towards him The Polack MSgt Feb 2022 #7
I asked someone mercuryblues Feb 2022 #15
K&R BlueWavePsych Feb 2022 #3
Ha, ha, ha!!! PatSeg Feb 2022 #4
The Earth is FLAT too! Fla Dem Feb 2022 #5
The other one I like is that we are living inside a hollow sphere. TreasonousBastard Feb 2022 #8
Edgy idea. L. Coyote Feb 2022 #11
My opinion is equal to your facts... care to argue and yell at each other? Sign up for Twitter. Alexander Of Assyria Feb 2022 #6
Never heard that term before, so I looked it up KS Toronado Feb 2022 #9
Anyone who has ever taught WX Aviation Pro Feb 2022 #13
Windows X has nothing to do with it. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #16
WX is short for weather Aviation Pro Feb 2022 #20
there actually is no centrifugal force DBoon Feb 2022 #23
If not the best, tiredtoo Feb 2022 #10
Wrong! Coriolis Force! Aviation Pro Feb 2022 #12
Gravity IS the centripetal force. Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #14
Exactly Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #17
We could sure use some global warming this winter IronLionZion Feb 2022 #18
Great cartoon LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #22

kiri

(802 posts)
21. "more attractive theories with genuine gravamen and spiritual gravitas."
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 01:31 PM
Feb 2022

quotes:
"It is unlikely that the Law of Gravity will be repealed given the present geo-political climate, but there is no need to teach unfounded theories in the public schools. There is, indeed, evidence that the Theory of Gravity is having a grave effect on morality. Activist judges and left-leaning teachers often use the phrase "what goes up must come down" as a way of describing gravity, and relativists have been quick to apply this to moral standards and common decency."

" It utterly fails to account for obesity. In fact, what it does “explain” is far outweighed by what it does not explain."

"If we have Universal Gravity now, then universal health care will be sure to follow. It is this kind of universalism that saps a nation’s moral fiber. It is not even clear why we need a theory of gravity: there is not a single mention in the Bible, and the patriotic Founding Fathers never referred to it."

"it has to be balanced with alternative, more attractive theories with genuine gravamen and spiritual gravitas."

mercuryblues

(14,557 posts)
15. I asked someone
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 12:13 PM
Feb 2022

(When they insisted global warming was just a theory)

So is gravity. Do you think God places his hands on top of our heads to keep us from floating away? When a person goes missing they slipped out by mistake… big pops or on him.

Yeah they never talked to me again.

Fla Dem

(23,882 posts)
5. The Earth is FLAT too!
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 11:11 AM
Feb 2022

Flat Earthers

Behind the Curve

Meet real Flat Earthers, a small but growing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat.

Playing on Netflix last day 2/14

I watched it. Only an hour and ½.

KS Toronado

(17,461 posts)
9. Never heard that term before, so I looked it up
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 11:33 AM
Feb 2022

Centripetal force is the force REQUIRED for circular motion. Centrifugal force is the force
that makes something flee from the center.

Sure I wasn't the only one scratching my head over this.

DBoon

(22,427 posts)
23. there actually is no centrifugal force
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 04:43 PM
Feb 2022

It is a correction to Newton's Laws of Motion caused by a non-inertial frame of reference

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,073 posts)
14. Gravity IS the centripetal force.
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 12:11 PM
Feb 2022

Centripetal means center-going or center-seeking. Gravity pulls you to the center.

Farmer-Rick

(10,240 posts)
17. Exactly
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 12:38 PM
Feb 2022

I was waiting for someone to point that out.

And barametric pressure, if strong enough to keep you from floating off a planet, would also make it too difficult to walk on the planet. There would be no barametric pressure without gravity.

That's the most interesting thing about gravity, the more massive you are, the more you have of it.

Yet It's a weak force and can manipulate solar systems. There's a lesson there for us.

IronLionZion

(45,646 posts)
18. We could sure use some global warming this winter
Mon Feb 7, 2022, 12:47 PM
Feb 2022

brrr...

What they don't want to tell you is how many people profit from global warming. It opens up shipping lanes in the arctic so those folks are all about making it worse if they can. Then there are developers and construction to deal with rising sea levels. There are the folks who control clean drinking water in places that have worse droughts and wildfires now.

So there is money to be made in convincing people that it's all a hoax.

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