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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Gravity Is A Hoax" - by Tom Tomorrow
"MUCH TO CONSIDER"?1644176049
off to do my own research........
underpants
(183,021 posts)kiri
(802 posts)see
https://ncse.ngo/gravity-its-only-theory
a parody on creationists opposed to evolution
kiri
(802 posts)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"It is unlikely that the Law of Gravity will be repealed given the present geo-political climate, but there is no need to teach unfounded theories in the public schools.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 nations 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."
AndyS
(14,559 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,206 posts)mercuryblues
(14,557 posts)(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.
BlueWavePsych
(2,641 posts)PatSeg
(47,750 posts)Fla Dem
(23,882 posts)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.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)KS Toronado
(17,461 posts)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.
Aviation Pro
(12,243 posts)Caught the joke.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,073 posts)Aviation Pro
(12,243 posts).
DBoon
(22,427 posts)It is a correction to Newton's Laws of Motion caused by a non-inertial frame of reference
tiredtoo
(2,949 posts)this is one of the better ones. thanks for sharing.
Aviation Pro
(12,243 posts)And don't forget friction force and pressure gradient.
Stupid morons.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,073 posts)Centripetal means center-going or center-seeking. Gravity pulls you to the center.
Farmer-Rick
(10,240 posts)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)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.