Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:29:26 -0700 Lines: 69 Message-ID: References: <06hpfch7gpc5g9bs2oqdcru1fhoopt4l63@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net J84GhefpGWVrceZ41VxV/AGdiMSZbdQmqSGWoNkVzYg+TcKSy3 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2dQenLOS4MC95007gXqHX5OG5aA= User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.36.0.130206 Thread-Topic: Smokers are smarter, I say. Thread-Index: AdLCCZscpT+Qs1zPnkO3yFux5omymw== Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:412252 sci.physics:631483 comp.sys.mac.system:105993 alt.comp.os.windows-10:41485 On 4/30/17, 4:17 PM, in article oe5r9j$m81$2@dont-email.me, "Sprang" wrote: > On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:18:16 -0700, Snit, after 15 edits, wrote this: >> On 4/30/17, 4:03 PM, in article oe5qg0$ju5$1@dont-email.me, "Sprang" >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:00:33 -0700, Snit, after 15 edits, wrote this: >>>> On 4/30/17, 3:34 PM, in article oe5oph$g01$1@dont-email.me, "Sprang" >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 15:31:52 -0700, Snit, after 15 edits, wrote this: >>>>>> On 4/30/17, 3:20 PM, in article oe5o02$cra$1@dont-email.me, "Sprang" >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> It's roundish. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Fair enough. OK, off the topic a bit but fun: about 1 in 4 Americans >>>>>>>>>> think >>>>>>>>>> the sun goes around the Earth: . Most of the >>>>>>>>>> rest >>>>>>>>>> think the Earth goes around the sun. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> What do you think? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> That 1 in 4 people believe in anthropogenic global warming. ;) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What about the topic? Earth. Sun. Does one revolve around the other and >>>>>>>> if >>>>>>>> so which? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The Earth makes a yearly revolution/orbit around the Sun. >>>>>> >>>>>> Incorrect. >>>>> >>>>> bullshit :) >>>> >>>> Well, your answer is close enough for elementary science books, so it is >>>> not >>>> as if your answer is completely outlandish, I guess. But for understanding >>>> how we know of so many exoplanets it is important to know why your answer >>>> is >>>> wrong. >>> >>> Well? >>> We know of exoplanets because of their gravitational disturbance of the star >>> they orbit, and the effect they have on light from that star as the >>> exoplanet >>> traverses between it and us. >> >> In other words, at least in part from the fact neither the planet not the >> star go around each other but each goes around the barycenter of their >> system. :) >> > > Weak. > I didn't know where this was going. :) Round and round and round... :) -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.