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Sweet-Tits makes another appearance?
fifthfiend:
--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 10 Feb 2009, 22:16 ---If you're going to split all these hairs, I suggest getting a new conditioner.
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--- Quote from: mustang6172 on 08 Feb 2009, 23:04 ---Occam's razor requires all things to be equal. Things are never equal in webcomics.
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Other things 'stang does or does not get: hairs, splitting of.
Random832:
--- Quote from: KeepACoolin on 16 Feb 2009, 12:41 ---I mean Occam's razor based on observation. Looking out into the sky, Occam's razor would suggest geocentrism.
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How so?
KeepACoolin:
The sun and moon quite obviously appear to orbit earth. It took very detailed observation of the stars to even begin to suggest heliocentrism. Even Galileo's theory was not immediately evident- I believe it was Brahe who suggested that Galileo's observations could be explained by smaller orbits around stars while the stars themselves continued to orbit the earth. Obviously he was wrong, but alternate theories continued to exist until Capernicus (I have no idea how to spell that name). Occam's razor would say, "All these bodies move through the sky in a circular pattern. It's possible that the earth itself is spinning, but, given that we don't feel force of that nature, it seems most likely that things are orbiting the earth."
championofkhorne:
am I the only one who doesnt think that looks like marten at all lol
Random832:
--- Quote from: KeepACoolin on 17 Feb 2009, 08:50 ---The sun and moon quite obviously appear to orbit earth. It took very detailed observation of the stars to even begin to suggest heliocentrism. Even Galileo's theory was not immediately evident- I believe it was Brahe who suggested that Galileo's observations could be explained by smaller orbits around stars while the stars themselves continued to orbit the earth. Obviously he was wrong, but alternate theories continued to exist until Capernicus (I have no idea how to spell that name). Occam's razor would say, "All these bodies move through the sky in a circular pattern. It's possible that the earth itself is spinning, but, given that we don't feel force of that nature, it seems most likely that things are orbiting the earth."
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Except, "we don't feel force of that nature" is not "given" at all, with a centrifugal force of only .034M·m/s2 at the equator and a coriolis force of 0.00015M·V/s at the poles.
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