Conundrum For Marky Francis!!

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Gabriel_Bell said:
You seem to have been brainwashed as a child before you learned what science is, or how it works. No one cares whether you are impressed or not.
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How do scientists determine the distance from earth to stars? One primary method is by triangulation, using points in earth's orbits to triangulate to stars, which is something like setting up two observation points 2 feet apart and measuring the difference in angles between the two base points while focused on a point 1,000 miles away. For those trained in trigonometry, there is no way to derive any useful variation of degrees of angle measurements in such silly attempts to measure distances to stars.

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It turns out that measuring the distance to a star is an interesting problem! Astronomers have come up with two different techniques to estimate how far away any given star is.

The first technique uses triangulation (a.k.a. parallax). The Earth's orbit around the sun has a diameter of about 186 million miles (300 million kilometers). By looking at a star one day and then looking at it again 6 months later, an astronomer can see a difference in the viewing angle for the star. With a little trigonometry, the different angles yield a distance. This technique works for stars within about 400 light years of earth. (For details on triangulation, check out How GPS Receivers Work.)
 
So, do you agree with the method by which scientists determine the distance of stars, or not?

Or do you agree with the Book of Revelation, that claims that when Jesus returns, the stars will all fall out of the sky?
 
Gabriel_Bell said:
So, do you agree with the method by which scientists determine the distance of stars, or not?

Or do you agree with the Book of Revelation, that claims that when Jesus returns, the stars will all fall out of the sky?
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I believe there are many reasons to suspect measurements taken from distant points on earth's orbit to the nearest star using trigonometric calculations that depend on an accurate line of sight between opposite points separated by nearly 200 billion miles through the center of the sun that cannot yield a measurement greater than .002 degrees, calculated using a line of sight across earth's 186 billion mile distance through the center of the sun.
 
mark francis said:
I believe there are many reasons to suspect measurements taken from distant points on earth's orbit to the nearest star using trigonometric calculations that depend on an accurate line of sight between opposite points separated by nearly 200 billion miles through the center of the sun that cannot yield a measurement greater than .002 degrees, calculated using a line of sight across earth's 186 billion mile distance through the center of the sun.
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Educated Eunuchs

Astronomy is impractical escapism for castrated geeks who could have been useful if they had focused on down-to-earth needs and possibilities.
 
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mark francis said:
The godless big bang theory of the origin of the universe is the masterpiece of an astrological construct.
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Only Those Who Would Follow Hitler Could Have Come Up with Postmodern Physics

It fits Theism. The Singularity is an impossible concentration of matter and energy; only a
Supernatural Being could have done that. And only a Supernatural Being could have made it go bang.

Time being a flexible dimension is also Theistic.
 

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