Last week...
Last week when I got home...
Last week there was much pomp and circumstance regarding a scientist in Germany
who (using radio waves from a distant Quasar we cannot see) measured the earth
and found out it is .5 millimeters smaller than everyone previously thought.
Discovery magazine did an in-depth article on this genius. Now, I certainly do
not consider myself a genius, but isn’t that astounding? That scientists can
(using complex mathematical calculations) measure this phenomenon? All the
papers carried the story….what a mathematical, astronomical feat!
Yet, starting months ago, scientists say they have been watching an asteroid
(which we can see) heading toward us. Then as it got closer, they finally said
(a few months ago) they were sure it might hit Mars! Now they say Oooooops, we
were wrong it wont hit Mars after all! I say huh?
You can measure objects using radio waves emanating from Quasars trillions of
miles away, which we will never see, but you cannot measure the distance between
an object we can see and Mars? They're starting to sound like preachers, what
tripe you are trying to feed us?
Now we all know they used the same math as the scientist in the first paragraph,
so how do we take this? There is only six ways (so far) to take this:
1. Scientists are full of bull shit, and really don’t
know what the hell they’re doing and their math is crap.
2. When the asteroid got threateningly close to Mars
something or somebody ‘nudged’ it on a different trajectory (and didn’t tell
us).
3. The asteroid was never going to hit Mars and
everyone knew it, but they wanted to garner a little time to fend off riots and
food rationing.
4. Scientists cannot measure distance, never could, and
everything they know on the matter is flawed because you cannot measure
accurately distance between two moving objects or atoms; so until someone stops
two surfaces from moving they will always be wrong (see “Tizzy fit/absolute
zero”).
5. We find out after all, scientists cannot measure
anything and the gullible public has falsely put science on a pedestal of sorts
and considered everything which comes out of a lab, gospel.
6. Get out the binoculars and by holding a ruler up to Mars and the object, calculate the distance and call them....or
7.
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