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Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by antichris
Good find on the use of standard measurements, and the OP caught that early in the game. He then used metric after the mistake. Anyone else catch that?
Originally posted by alienanderson
Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by antichris
Good find on the use of standard measurements, and the OP caught that early in the game. He then used metric after the mistake. Anyone else catch that?
Hi kidflash
I saw you were active in this thread: Project HEDON which is pretty much a definite hoax (I'm 99% sure of that)
I haven't bothered to go through this thread but the opening post has the same feel
It's like someone is opening up accounts and then trying to get a good story going on ATS or perhaps a group of people are taking turns in seeing how long they can string ATS users along just for the fun of it
What's your honest opinion on this current thread? Hoax too?
Cheers
[edit on 5/5/2009 by alienanderson]
Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by alienanderson
The FARK site (and others) seem to have a contest going on, so expect a lot of these types of threads. We all have to be diligent, and look out for these hoaxes.
Originally posted by BRQuick
The one thing I find interesting is the map blackouts of this area. So far, on the ones I've checked it's either blacked out or the map just won't go to that area.
Live Search and Terraserver won't search that area (as far as I could tell that section of map is just unavailable) and like someone else said Google maps, Yahoo maps and MapQuest all have the area blacked out.
Strange.
it tarnishs the reputation of ats
I know some people here will believe my story, and its for them who i post it for
Originally posted by Zenagain
" He also writes perfect english, which isn't that much of an idicator. "
You and I have VERY different ideas of what perfect English is. That post isn't it. I'd like to hold a physicist to a higher standard but hey, he wasn't an English major.
Originally posted by chiron613
His English is not perfect - far from it. However, the mistakes he makes are in line with a contemporary idiomatic spearker, rather than a speaker of Russian. He certainly doesn't sound anything like a physicist, if only because he used miles per hour as his units.
Traveling at any speed doesn't kill living beings. *Acceleration* beyond a certain maximum could kill them. This error completely blows Itop1's credibility. The accelerations involved with moving an object from rest to C, or vice versa, within a reasonable time frame would destroy any robot, not just humans. Oh, and such acceleration would take an infinite amount of energy, and the object would acquire infinite mass and zero depth in the direction of travel. All highly inconvenient, I'd say.
Even if this entire post were completely true, it is also completely useless.
Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by alienanderson
You can usually catch a hoax thread in the first few pages of the thread. Some are quite good, but they always mess up especially if it is a long thread. There are some diligent people here at ATS who find the discrepancies, and they are quick to post them.