Re: Zetans Flunk Astronomy!

O'Brother wrote in message <Fr9F9.36$%p6.66822@twister.neo.rr.com>
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> I M Openmind wrote in message <c6cdf9f8.0211271127.4889e31f@posting.google.com>
> > mathnphysics-not@hotmail.com wrote in message <20021126.2250134@mis.configured.host>
> >> According to Nancy Lieder's statements on Coast-to-Coast
> >> this morning, the following is true about Planet X:
> >>
> >> Mass is 25 times that of Earth.
> >> Diameter is 4 times that of Earth.
> >> Surface "pull" is 1.5 times that of Earth.
> >>
> >> A little Newton's physics shows that these assertions are
> >> not consistent. If we are to believe the first two
> >> assertions then the pull would be 25/64 times that of
> >> Earth according to real astronomy.
> >
> > This sort of post is very frustrating.  Please folks, think before you
> > simply assume that everything Lieder and her followers is totally
> > wrong.  When you post poorly thought out statements like the above you
> > simply make the job of we official paid NASA debunkers all that more
> > difficult.
> >
> > As others have pointed out, mathnphysics-not has calculated relative
> > density which comes from mass/volume ~ m/r^3 = 25/64 (i.e. about 2.16
> > g/cc), not acceleration of gravity. A little of Newton's physics shows
> > that F=ma and F=G(m1*m2)/r^2 so acceleration of gravity is a=Gm1/r^2
> > and the relative acceleration is 25/16 which is about 1.5
>
> Y'see, another NASA ploy to hide the TRUTH(tm).  What about those
> of us'n who don't know how to do them thar al-jee-bruh thingies.  How
> do we know that's the ak-shu-al truth.  Them Zetan's make it easier
> on us 'cuz they don't fill their stuff up with those little mathematikal
> letters n' numbers n' things.
>

Gee, they should've been OK with that stuff. Ain't none of them danged
zee-rows in there.

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