[klaangen]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Okay.


The sun is roughly 13,600,000, You're doing it wrong because you've got the wrong value for the displacement constant. You really should check these things.


No... d=(13.6m - 288 /6)
d= 13599712km ( 8 450 469 miles)

Besides, this is not how you work out how far away something is, you mong.

well, fuck me you are correct sir... and i should know, I´m a salesman...

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

...I honestly don't know where to start...

You should start from the observable data and using established scientific laws to see where they lead, instead of just believing whatever you've been told and working backwards looking for ways to prove your preconceived notions.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Jamesy]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

THIS IS NOT HOW MATHS WORK

http://www.astro.washington.edu/courses/labs/eratosthenes/rung3.html

FFS. You don't know a thing about how to do maths

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

THIS IS NOT HOW MATHS WORK

http://www.astro.washington.edu/courses/labs/eratosthenes/rung3.html

FFS. You don't know a thing about how to do maths

Did you just do a web search and post a link to the first thing you found to rebut me? Do you even understand what your link says?

Why don't you explain in your own words what is wrong with how I calculated the distance to the sun, without letting Google do your thinking for you.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[Jamesy]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Did you just do a web search and post a link to the first thing you found to rebut me? Do you even understand what your link says?

Why don't you explain in your own words what is wrong with how I calculated the distance to the sun, without letting Google do your thinking for you.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

Um... How does where I got something from change how valid it is?

http://www.astro-tom.com/getting_started/earth-sun_distance.htm

Look, that explains it in detail. Just explain how it's wrong and don't resort to "HERP DERP YOU FOUND FROM GOOGLE >:B".

[GOD=life]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

You don't know a thing about how to do maths

Which is why you link to other sites instead of constructing your own argument? Is this how you pass math tests? Do you give your teacher a link to a site too?

Listen to the pastor. Say it in your own words.

[Indica~]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Thank you for one of the most humorous threads I have ever read. I emailed it to my physics professor as a joke and I'm pretty sure your math single handedly persuaded the christians taking the class to become aetheists.



Did anyone else catch the "Diversity and Tolerance Pastor" responses? This site can't be serious! Go back to school, learn about the beautiful and wonderful world around you and then maybe you won't be so terrified of intelligent people.

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Um... How does where I got something from change how valid it is?

http://www.astro-tom.com/getting_started/earth-sun_distance.htm

Look, that explains it in detail. Just explain how it's wrong and don't resort to "HERP DERP YOU FOUND FROM GOOGLE >:B".

I will explain it, but first I asked you to explain how my applied trigonometry is wrong, and you don't seem to be able answer. All you can do is post links.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[James Hutchins]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Pastor, he is merely a brit. You know their educational system is sorely lacking after the influx of mooslimes and how they had to allow their standards to plummet to accommodate the lesser minds. Now it all one big cesspool, I am afraid.

I have tested everyones calculations ( I am no astro physicist but I do have a couple of degrees from Princeton, one is in science) and I find the good Pastor's are correct and totally valid. I have nothing to gain or lose by making this independent observation.
The other calculations have a lot of assumed and never verified values.

[Indica~]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Ok so you guys are a satire group! That explains so much. God damn your hilarious! Good job!

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Thank you for one of the most humorous threads I have ever read. I emailed it to my physics professor as a joke and I'm pretty sure your math single handedly persuaded the christians taking the class to become aetheists.



Did anyone else catch the "Diversity and Tolerance Pastor" responses? This site can't be serious! Go back to school, learn about the beautiful and wonderful world around you and then maybe you won't be so terrified of intelligent people.

Friend,

I assure we are as serious as the very fires of Hell. Who are you to tell us what our deeply held beliefs are. I find it all to typical of a secularist that you claim we are joking rather than refute our arguments.

[Pastor Billy-Reuben]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

Ok so you guys are a true religion group! That explains so much. God damn your hilarious! Good job!

Indica, huh? Are you some kind of dope-fiend?

Pastor Billy-Reuben

[GOD=life]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I emailed it to my physics professor as a joke

Then let him come in here and give some insight. Unless, of course, your professor also cannot do more than copy/paste links.

I thought you atheist types wanted evidence for everything... yet here you are demanding to be trusted on the basis of having our intelligence insulted.

persuaded the christians taking the class to become aetheists.

Then they never were Christians in the first place.

won't be so terrified of intelligent people.

Which ones would those be? You mean the hordes of swearing-and-cussing emotionally unstable imbeciles who come here every day to insult us?

Please, by all means show how intelligent you are. Can you do that? Or will you throw a fit and declare yourself to be the victor without providing any counter-evidence.

[GOD=life]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

... that you claim we are joking rather than refute our arguments.

Bobby, that is why I always laugh when they say our evidence is based on faith instead of fact We use logical arguments all the time and the counter-response is "you are stupid" or "you are wrong, because I KNOW I am right". Atheists are more emotion and faith based than almost anyone else

[Jamesy]

Re: The Sun: Millions of miles away?

I will explain it, but first I asked you to explain how my applied trigonometry is wrong, and you don't seem to be able answer. All you can do is post links.

Pastor Billy-Reuben

To post links which explain how you're wrong. Read them, and it's shown. I'm not going to waste my personal time on people who believe there is a magic man in the sky who created disabled people on purpose.