Johnny Ragadoo

Physics fan. Happened to notice one day Earth isn't flat.

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While I agree carrying long guns is not just a right, it's a required right that should never be infringed. Personally, I prefer the tactics of being more subtly armed in day to day situations. Just don't tell me I can't carry an AR and you won't have to worry about me.

The cops should have backed down when he gave a reasonable answer. Their initial interest was understandable, though.

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@Shawneeb54 Hmmm. I seem to have replied to myself. Anyway, sorry to disappoint. There was a lithium hydroxide canister in the Apollo space suits.

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@Shawneeb54 There was a lithium scrubber canister inside the backpacks.

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@iconoclast1962 @RuggedRyan_ My solution, too. Logs are so handy!

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@RuggedRyan_ It is precisely log(32)/log(8), no math needed for that. Call it 1.67 on a calculator.

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@Shawneeb54 @FlatEarthZone CO2 scrubbing helps. They don't throw air away the way a scuba diver does.

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@FlatEarthZone How much heat energy do you think will transfer from 121C in a near vacuum? You might look into how thermos bottles depend on vacuum for insulation.

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@FlatEarth_TW Not that you would ever notice, but the airplane's adjustment for earth curve is a constant rotation. It's not something that would need incremental adjustment.

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@LagrimaChristi @plain_see "All you need to do is measure distances." If you plot the shortest path between points on earth you always get a great circle. How does that suggest a flat earth?

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If you can cite motion other than earth rotation that precesses a free pendulum, I'm willing to investigate. Ring laser gyros are useless in aircraft if they don't detect rotation. You can measure pressure differential without containment with your smartphone's barometer, by the way.

So, what precesses a free pendulum? You can see the same thing with a helicopter, by the way. Suspend it from a cable and swing it like a pendulum. It will precess, too.

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@alexboge One of my proudest moments was the day Oakley used a snippet from one of my (very few) YouTube videos and called me a "senile old bas***d".

I considered adding that to my resume, but I don't like dropping names.

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@alexboge DVC, nice!

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@alexboge What a nice, well reasoned review. Unfortunately, we can't come up with anything original to dispute Oakley's findings.

Measuring an angle from a curve could never be original. It would have to be "derivative." 😁

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@alexboge 6500 words isn't a book, that's a chapter.

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@WeaponsVault Firing before the front sight is on target, waving the gun around before re-holstering. Not the best, being kind.

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@TacticalStNick Make that sign more real - add some bullet holes in photoshop. 😆

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@HJarsz @BrockRiddickIFB It's really going to be hilarious when flerfers get jealous of the precise relationship between gravity and inertia. Can you imagine what they could come up with correlating inertia and buoyancy?

Personally, I'm not well prepared for that. I'm almost out of popcorn.

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@AndySloane19 @Stroben404 @BrockRiddickIFB Grab a piece of aluminum and a chunk of angle iron. Release them simultaneously from your roof. Why do they fall at the same rate without regard to density, whether or not they weigh the same?

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Did you know I can find the acceleration of gravity from a pendulum without paying any attention to its weight, mass, or density? All I need is the length of the pendulum and the period of its swing and I can tell what gravity's influence is, at sea level, atop Mr. Everest, on the surface of the moon, or anywhere.

I was so excited at learning how to do that I measured earth's gravity in my living room with a piece of string tied to a padlock and a stopwatch.

No need to fret. Earth's gravity is roughly 9.8 m/s^2. I checked. You should, too.