"The Spacecraft Flyby Mystery" - Is Dark Matter the Culprit or is There a New Physics ...

Daily Galaxy ^ | 8/3/10 | Casey Kazan

[cripplecreek]

Its hard to tell who is doing the most damage, global warming alarmists or idiot writers who don’t know what they’re reporting on.

I flinch every time I see the term “Earthlike planet”. In scientific terms Mercury, Venus, and Mars are “earthlike”. Unfortunately “earth mass similar rocky planet” doesn’t quite create the hype the writers are looking for.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Can I get some of that technology for my daughter? She doesn’t leave or arrive anywhere on time.

[cripplecreek]

New Horizons will spend the bulk of its time studying the Kuiper belt. Personally I doubt we’ll find much of great interest there.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

This is the least reliable field of the sciences, and full of ignorant and arrogant people, IMHO.

They may be ignorant and arrogant, but their models work beautifully in explaining the orbits of earth bound satellites. They are humbly and modestly trying to understand why the same models do not work for satellites grazing earth. And even then, in the case of assymetrical orbits, they do work. Whether or not Pluto is a planet is a purely semantic issue. Call Pluto what you will. Whatever you chose to call it has nothing at all to do with astrodynamics.

[Yo-Yo]

A similar story, by the otherwise nutcase Richard Hoagland:

Von Braun’s 50-Year-Old Secret: The US Explorer I Discovery that Could Have Saved the World...

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

July 14, 2015 — Flyby of Pluto around 11:47 UTC at 13,695 km, 13.78 km/s.

[huldah1776]

Lol - its a control thing. :)

[JPG]

Maybe Obama would like to take a trip there? Lots and lots of snow cone fixins.

[Neanderthal]

"JPL researcher Anderson, first saw the effect in 1980, but waited until he had accumulated data over the next 15 years, before he could easily dismiss it as the result of systematic errors. "Like a lot of problems in astronomy, many years of observation are needed," Anderson said."

The global warming guys didn't need to wait 15 years, or to confirm anything.

[UCANSEE2]

This posts are rediculous. First, it pre-supposes these guys no how things work and that something is behaving very oddly, the truth is they don’t know jack squat about “space”. How long ago was it we decided Pluto wasn’t a planet? This is the least reliable field of the sciences, and full of ignorant and arrogant people, IMHO.

You know, you might want to hold off on throwing rocks at those ignorant and arrogant people. Most of them at least have decent spelling and grammar skills.

[RobRoy]

I’m thinking there is a hockey stick in there somewhere. :)

[RobRoy]

Maybe something here could explain it:

“Why Gravity is Really Pushy:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8pR50SFD4YAC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=why+%22gravity+is+really+pushy%22&source=bl&ots=vNgGsSwEvi&sig=L9HX2nqHHW3f5iKabzGPsSo32BU&hl=en&ei=pOs8TJ2EA4ycsQOR_p3aCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=why%20%22gravity%20is%20really%20pushy%22&f=false

[OneWingedShark]

Very interesting, thanks for the link.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Did you know that yelling at them makes them cry and move even more slowly? Can’t win. Nothin’ to do but ... wait.

[aft_lizard]

Awhile back a theory came out that the Universe may actually be dodecahedron in shape. If you remember that in Plato’s universe each of the four elements and aether had it’s own shape. The shape of Plato’s aether was dodecahedron.

[RobRoy]

I read part of that. A lot of it, actually. It takes that guy ten paragraphs to say what I could say in one.

[Yo-Yo]

Credit where credit is due. Jack Hydrazine posted it first.

[Paco]

Hmm, Occum’s Razor...maybe their speedometer is off. If not, I’m going to use this mysterious “acceleration” excuse the next time I get pulled over for speeding...

[Paco]

Hmm, Occum’s Razor...maybe their speedometer is off. If not, I’m going to use this mysterious “acceleration” excuse the next time I get pulled over for speeding...

[BnBlFlag]

“That would be a fudge factor.”

Has Barney Frank been consulted concerning the “fudge factor”?