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Originally posted by darkbluesky
Allow me to make a down home, common sense comment about this lunar gravity debate.
The gravitational attractive force exerted by any body is a direct function of is mass (at least according to todays accepted Newtonian model)
The volume of the Earth (with a G value of 1) is 2.4ee11 cubic miles (2.4 times 10 to the 11th power)...
...You know what? I think I just proved the hollow Earth theory!
[edit on 5/16/2007 by darkbluesky]
Originally posted by yfxxx
[edit: changed a typo in John Lear's name. I'm really sorry about this typo, and guarantee that it was an honest mistake. I'm sorry, Mr. Lear.]
You're welcome, glad I could help. I see you've been beating your head against a wall for some time now with him and thought maybe you (and the rest of the sane world LOL) could use a little support. I think the only reason he accepted it is because the math is way over his head.
Anyway, I don't see much point in arguing with him much more about it since he clearly isn't concerned with his credibility. I think he gets off on it actually in a “if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with BS” kind of way. The funny thing is he doesn’t have any credibility with any of the major players in Ufology either which is an amazing accomplishment in itself if you think about it.
Regards and good luck,
H18
[email protected]
Originally posted by darkbluesky
You know what? I think I just proved the hollow Earth theory!
Originally posted by hangerateteen
Originally posted by yfxxx
[edit: changed a typo in John Lear's name. I'm really sorry about this typo, and guarantee that it was an honest mistake. I'm sorry, Mr. Lear.]
A fruedian slip?
BTW thanks for the U2U yfxxx. I tried to respond but it said I needed 20 posts before I could reply (strange) so I'll post my response here since I don't see myself wasting much more time with this particular subject in the near future:
You're welcome, glad I could help. I see you've been beating your head against a wall for some time now with him and thought maybe you (and the rest of the sane world LOL) could use a little support. I think the only reason he accepted it is because the math is way over his head.
Anyway, I don't see much point in arguing with him much more about it since he clearly isn't concerned with his credibility. I think he gets off on it actually in a “if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with BS” kind of way. The funny thing is he doesn’t have any credibility with any of the major players in Ufology either which is an amazing accomplishment in itself if you think about it.
Regards and good luck,
H18
[email protected]
Originally posted by zorgon
Originally posted by darkbluesky
You know what? I think I just proved the hollow Earth theory!
You did didn't you? Now isn't THAT an interesting way to look at it.
Originally posted by darkbluesky
The gravitational attractive force exerted by any body is a direct function of is mass (at least according to todays accepted Newtonian model)
The volume of the Earth (with a G value of 1) is 2.4ee11 cubic miles (2.4 times 10 to the 11th power)
The volume of the moon is 5.2ee9 cubic miles.
Ergo....the moon has 2% the volume of the Earth.
Assuming the densities of these two bodies are equal we would expect the moon to exert
not 1/6th (16%) of Earth's gravity, but only 2% (1/50th) of Earth's gravity.
Originally posted by thebox
So instead of posting your insults directly to John, you are sending them to others via U2U and then posting them indirectly...
You should at least consider the fact, the the gravity on a body's surface is not only proportional to the mass, but also inversely proportional to the square root of the body's radius (g = G * m/r²).
Regards
yf
Originally posted by johnlear
Yfxxx, this could be where your error is on the moons gravity. Apparently you are assuming the gravity on the moon is:
(1) not only proportional to the mass, but also,
(2)inversely proportional to the square root of the bodies radius
So if the moon was artificially constructed those particular laws wouldn't necessarily apply would they?
Now J.L., do you consider what you said above a fact or an opinion? And if it was your opinion would that be a factual opinion or an opinionated fact?
Is the moon really artificially constructed?
Or is that intended to 'promote discussion' and ruin some one's day?
I think I speak for the majority of us when I say you are doing more to confuse every one than to bring forth any help full data, but I will base that on my assumed opinion. You with me?
It is indeed intended to promote discussion and if it ruins your day that means that you find comfort in mainstream scientific lies.
4. I do not know what an 'opinionated fact' is.
Originally posted by johnlear
(3) My opinion that the moon is artificially constructed is based on these facts:
a. rings like bell
Originally posted by Ghost01
No offence, but this has to be the most rediculas claim I've ever seen on the internet.
Possibly the strongest evidence for it to be a 'hollow object' comes from the fact that when meteors strike the Moon, the latter rings like a bell. More specifically when the Apollo crew in November 20, 1969 released the lunar module, after returning to the orbiter, the module impact with the Moon caused their seismic equipment to register a continuous reverberation like a bell for more than an hour. The same effect occurred with Apollo 13's third stage which caused the Moon to ring for over three hours. So what's going on with the Moon?
Originally posted by yeahright
Originally posted by Ghost01
No offence, but this has to be the most rediculas claim I've ever seen on the internet.
Our Enigmatic Moon
Possibly the strongest evidence for it to be a 'hollow object' comes from the fact that when meteors strike the Moon, the latter rings like a bell. More specifically when the Apollo crew in November 20, 1969 released the lunar module, after returning to the orbiter, the module impact with the Moon caused their seismic equipment to register a continuous reverberation like a bell for more than an hour. The same effect occurred with Apollo 13's third stage which caused the Moon to ring for over three hours. So what's going on with the Moon?
Just sayin'.
Originally posted by yfxxx
You should at least consider the fact, the the gravity on a body's surface is not only proportional to the mass, but also inversely proportional to the square root of the body's radius (g = G * m/r²).
Originally posted by johnlear
Yfxxx, this could be where your error is on the moons gravity. Apparently you are assuming the gravity on the moon is:
(1) not only proportional to the mass, but also,
(2)inversely proportional to the square root of the bodies radius
So if the moon was artificially constructed those particular laws wouldn't necessarily apply would they?
Originally posted by johnlear
(3) My opinion that the moon is artificially constructed is based on these facts:
a. rings like bell
b. surface cannot be easily penetrated with drills
c. surface gravity is at least 64% that of earths so it does not conform to stated laws that gravity is proportional to mass and that gravity inversely proportional to the square root of the radius.
d. is in rotational lock with the earth
e. has not been orbiting the earth as long as the earth has been in exitence
f. capture theory extremely unlikely
g. has rock that have been found to be considerably older than either the moon or the earth
Originally posted by kleverone
Originally posted by thebox
So instead of posting your insults directly to John, you are sending them to others via U2U and then posting them indirectly...
Could you please explain to me where you saw an insult made anywhere in that post? All I see is an opinion that Lear gets off on this stuff and doesn't seem to care about his credibility. I don't see any insults
Just opinions, and pretty good ones at that.
Just because we may disagree with John doesn't mean we are insulting him.
Originally posted by yfxxx
A surface gravity of 64% ge would indeed not conform to anything. What I find interesting here is that you copied my erroneous phrase "inversely proportional to the square root of the radius" ("square" instead of "square root" is correct; silly typo) verbatim, when you had the chance to ridicule my "physics" by pointing out this error. That you did not do so, and even copied the mistake into your argument, lends some plausibility to the idea that you actually didn't notice the mistake, which says a bit about your understanding of the laws themselves.
No, I did not notice the mistake and you are correct that I am not a physicist or mathmatician as I have plainly state in this thread.
It wasn't my intention to ridicule your physics or you. My intention is to show where your error is in using that physics to claim that the moon has only 16% or 24%, (depending on which one you are using) the gravity of the earth.
Once I can find your error its no big deal to work the math.
I don't think you realize that the moon is a 'spaceship' and is towed around and placed into orbit wherever it is needed. As a 'spaceship' its gravity is going to be considerably different than what you think.
So? Almost all moons in our solar system are in rotational lock with their respective planets. Were they all "artificially constructed"? Someone must have been very busy here .
Many were and I agree with you someone has been very busy.