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Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails

From whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails
Date 2023-08-11 14:35 -0500
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On 8/11/2023 11:10 AM, Jeffrey Rubard wrote:
> On Thursday, August 10, 2023 at 3:36:28 PM UTC-7, whodat wrote:
>> On 8/10/2023 3:57 PM, Laurence Clark Crossen wrote:
>>
>>> The idea of advanced science in very ancient India is mainly supported by what is known as the "Roy" translation of the Mahabharata. This version was written after the discovery of the atomic bomb and devised to seem as if atomic power and airplanes were known in 3000 BCE, including "mercury vortex powered" vimanas.
>> More appropriate to be discussed at one of the highlighted
>> newsgroups at:
>>
>> http://www.mit.edu/people/tgowrish/tgowrish/india_ngroups.html
>>
>> Do you know what "physics" is?
>>
>> "vimanas"
>>
>> Vimāna are mythological flying palaces or chariots described in Hindu
>> texts and Sanskrit epics. The "Pushpaka Vimana"...
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimana
>>
>> But then almost everything you've been posting here involves mythology
>> of one sort or another. That appears to be a crankish characteristic.
>>
>> If you have Indian ancestry please take culturally related topics like
>> the above to one of the culturally appropriate newsgroups. Banerjee
>> keeps attempting to bring his Hindu gods and goddesses into sci.physics
>> and they're not happy with the prospects of standard western critique.
> 
> Wider World: "Don't quite believe your interpretations of *Oppenheimer*. This kind of talk is absolutely pseudo-scientific, anti-scientific, and well-known as such. People who talk about the Vedas and science don't like Indians any better than they like science, either."

Not worthy of thoughtful response. Learn something
about the formal fallacies. Anything would be helpful.
Even if you learn something wrong it would be much
better than where you are now.

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Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-06 19:43 -0500
  Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-10 15:22 -0500
  Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails Laurence Clark Crossen <l.c.c.sirius@gmail.com> - 2023-08-10 13:57 -0700
    Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-10 17:36 -0500
      Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails Jeffrey Rubard <theleasthappyfella@gmail.com> - 2023-08-11 09:10 -0700
        Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-11 14:35 -0500
          Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails Jeffrey Rubard <theleasthappyfella@gmail.com> - 2023-08-12 08:40 -0700
            Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-08-12 12:35 -0500
              Re: Reactionless motors for space travel, with mercury rails Jeffrey Rubard <theleasthappyfella@gmail.com> - 2023-08-13 08:25 -0700

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