"This isn't an argument, this is just contradiction."
HB: "No it isn't."

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Perhaps it was a Moebius torus rope, and the splices were obscured by the pass-through. Or a Moebius strip surface rope, where the splices are in the third dimension. Or the projection of a hyperrope, where the splices don't translate to three-dimensional space.

Sorry, but everything can't be simple cubes...

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How did he know it was going to do that?

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

Reminds me of a Conversation I Had wiith a Creationist Once:

her - "It's Juust a Difference of Opinion!"

me - "No, it's a FACT, you've Learned Incorrectly!"

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If you Ignore YOUR Rights, they Will go away.

"You tired of moving those goalposts yet?"

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"Time travel gives me a headache." - Capt. Kathryn Janeway

"Prove me wrong."

"I won't accept your proof."

"LALALALALALALALALALA."

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It was an educated guess.

And now for something completely different, an HB with a tape recorder up his nose. . .

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"There is no problem that cannot be solved by a suitable application of high explosives" - US Army Demolitions School

http://worldsofothersuns.home.comcast.net/

Please, proper attribution. (see below).

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"I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind." - William Thompson, 1st Baron Lord Kelvin

"If it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" - Tweedledee

This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli

The ancients know everything.

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If it's just us, it seems like an awful waste of space.
Contact Carl Sagan

Debating HB's is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon -- it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flys back to its flock to claim victory.

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"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
Stephen Hawking

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein

i do not understand why people here have such strong feelings against halfbacks what kind of halfbacks are these anyway are we talking about rugby union rugby league soccer or american football

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This one is my favourite!

American football. Those darndable halfbacks! Not only do they hog most of the glory from the powerhouse fullbacks (in most cases) but they also don't believe we landed on the moon. Rascals!

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

Theory of Zombie Relativity:
1) Everyone Else is a Zombie relative to You
2) Whether or not it matters is related to the inverse square of the distance between their teeth and your brain
(Quoted from Demigrog)

Woo Woo logic is a truly wondrous thing......

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But you're sure the astronauts are lying; you just don't seem to know what they're lying about. jayutah

0.566Kg = 566 grams. So apparently there was some (incorrect) rounding going on.

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In response to the OP, I offer the following:

You may recall with varying degrees of fondness "david", he of the if-you-don't-agree-this-isn't-a-757-you-are-not-objective loyalty test and three standard responses:
1. If he believed something, regardless of physical law or differing interpretation: "It's obvious."
2. If given references to data: "That's bogus."
3. If given references to witnesses or personal experience: "They're lying/You're lying."

Over on apollohoax, he has been beating his Apollo hoax drum, and invoked the legion of clear-eyed truth seekers who would rise up in righteous wrath and set us disinfo agents in our place, with several proclamations like this:

The lurkers and viewers are watching and judging.

Clearly he meant that they would judge him right, Apollo faked, and us a bunch of tools of The Man.

So I decided to run an experiment to verify his implicit claim. Ten posters* new to the board, or at least the Apollo subforum, have replied so far.

I invoked baseball's "mercy rule" after ten "lurkers and viewers" chimed in, every one of them disagreeing with david (or "rocky" as he goes by now). But (to get back on topic for this thread) the comments were especially interesting. My favorite one-line response, addressed to the regulars, was:

I think you guys spend way too much time fighting with mental patients.



*etac was disqualified because many of us already knew him from BABB/BAUT.

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"Slapping a guy on the head is just as funny now as it was eighty years ago."

Summing up in one line?

"I don't NEED to find out any facts, I already KNOW!"

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Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Best descriptor I've seen was by Jim Oberg who described them as 'Cultural Vandals'

To badly paraphrase Billy Connolly 'Talking to a conspiracist is like washing a handkerchief '.

OR - to cite the Big Yin again - in response to a conspiracist you could say "You should get an agent. Why sit in the dark handling yourself!"

Doug

Another definition for the word vicarious.

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Those with small minds and little courage that are destined to accomplish little, yet try to diminish, denigrate, negate, and deny the accomplishments of the courageous, far-sighted, and truly great humans and their achievements of our time.

tbm

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