Nsaspook is a very old ID I've used for years long before the modern Internet. It's more like a radio handle.

 

I get you. Pardon my fervency in relation to being real because anyone looking around these days must realize we have too much fantasy floating around. Personally I prefer reality and am still curious as to what reality consists of. Hence my interest in matters such as we have been contemplating and discussing. As a matter of fact your comment lead me to other things I might not have otherwise found which I'm finding quite beneficial and therefore I owe you a debt of gratitude! At any rate, I wish you a peaceful evening nsaspook. 10-4 good buddy!

 

When I first got on UseNet newsgroups I used my real name and real e-mail address. Quickly I discovered the (irrevocable) error of my ways. Within a short period of time I was getting literally hundreds of spam e-mails a day and even five years after I stopped using that account it was still receiving over two hundred spam e-mails a day. Probably still is. So there is a huge nuisance factor involved with making your actual contact information easy to get. Forums have gotten a lot better about sheltering information, but you still need to exercise care -- more care than most of us (me included) are willing to do on a routine basis.

Just as a mental exercise, let's say that I am a lurker (not even a member and just visiting the site from a library somewhere) and I see your avatar and go -- hmmm, I really like that guitar. I deserve it more than you do. So then I use the information you've made available to find out where you live. From things you've said perhaps I've gotten a good indication of when you are going to be out of town for a vacation (just as we knew when nsaspook was away from home recently) and use that to help plan when we want to ransack your home. It's not farfetched at all, it actually happens all too commonly. So the best policy is to keep yourself completely anonymous and adopt the position that the value of what you say should be based on what you say and the support you provide to back it up rather than on who you are that is saying it.

 

Ever wonder why the moon only one side facing Earth? It is because of tidal forces.The reverse is also hapening, but it takes longer because the Earth is much larger. We also have water sloshing around which absorbs the forces much better. So the Earth is ever so slowly spinning down, transferring this momentum to the Moons speed. As the orbital speed of the moon increaes it moves out. In a billion years or more it will wander off, leaving an Earth whose days are much longer. Of course, the red giant phase of our sun may have expanded out past the Earth's orbit by then. Astronomy is fun.

 

??? Must be a bad night for southern people. I was up before 5 AM, too.

 

I work 10PM to 6:30AM.

But it has been a bad couple of days, I haven't been to work cause of a bug.

 

The popular illness right now is the flu. (Try to avoid that.)
Meanwhile, I can hope you got some bad potato salad (like I did) and you will be over this real quick.

 

The popular illness right now is the flu. (Try to avoid that.)
Meanwhile, I can hope you got some bad potato salad (like I did) and you will be over this real quick.

Not bad potato salad.

“first you are afraid you are going to die and then you are afraid you aren’t going to die”

 

Not bad potato salad.
“first you are afraid you are going to die and then you are afraid you aren’t going to die”

Now THAT was pretty impressive!

 

When I first got on UseNet newsgroups I used my real name and real e-mail address. Quickly I discovered the (irrevocable) error of my ways. Within a short period of time I was getting literally hundreds of spam e-mails a day and even five years after I stopped using that account it was still receiving over two hundred spam e-mails a day. Probably still is. So there is a huge nuisance factor involved with making your actual contact information easy to get. Forums have gotten a lot better about sheltering information, but you still need to exercise care -- more care than most of us (me included) are willing to do on a routine basis.

Just as a mental exercise, let's say that I am a lurker (not even a member and just visiting the site from a library somewhere) and I see your avatar and go -- hmmm, I really like that guitar. I deserve it more than you do. So then I use the information you've made available to find out where you live. From things you've said perhaps I've gotten a good indication of when you are going to be out of town for a vacation (just as we knew when nsaspook was away from home recently) and use that to help plan when we want to ransack your home. It's not farfetched at all, it actually happens all too commonly. So the best policy is to keep yourself completely anonymous and adopt the position that the value of what you say should be based on what you say and the support you provide to back it up rather than on who you are that is saying it.

I get your point and your words are fully understood by me. At the same time I am not ashamed of who I am (and I know you aren't ashamed of who you are either) despite the fact that others ought to be ashamed of who they are when they might get the inclination to take advantage of another individual and act upon that inclination. Firstly, the Gadsden 'Don't Tread on Me' flag which flies over my property should be their first clue that it might be a bad idea to breach my fenced yard without good cause. If they do a whole host of other unwanted surprises may await them so I'm not concerned in the least. In relation to spam, it is a pain to have to use the delete button so much but even pains in the backside have a certain first amendment right and I tend to admire their tenacity despite the fact that it bugs the hell out of me! By the way, I miss Usenet and the Undernet. Perhaps the Undernet is still out there and I know the Usenet is but now the internet service providers don't seem to offer the service anymore like they used to. Maybe the only point I'm making is simply saying that I gotta be me and no spammers or potential victims (er, thieves) are gonna take that away from this guy!

 

Ever wonder why the moon only one side facing Earth? It is because of tidal forces.The reverse is also hapening, but it takes longer because the Earth is much larger. We also have water sloshing around which absorbs the forces much better. So the Earth is ever so slowly spinning down, transferring this momentum to the Moons speed. As the orbital speed of the moon increaes it moves out. In a billion years or more it will wander off, leaving an Earth whose days are much longer. Of course, the red giant phase of our sun may have expanded out past the Earth's orbit by then. Astronomy is fun.

I'd like to submit this for consideration as the feel good thought for the evening!

 

Not bad potato salad.

“first you are afraid you are going to die and then you are afraid you aren’t going to die”

I'll take this over Rap any day of the week! Even if they're singing about potato salad! That being said, I'm sorry to read of #12's misfortune in relation to potato salad.

 

??? Must be a bad night for southern people. I was up before 5 AM, too.

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. I read that someplace and I do that. I'm at least fairly healthy... still waiting for the wealthy and wise however.

 

... still waiting for the wealthy and wise however.

Me too!

 

Wouldn't this make you suspicious?

I know it's true!

 

If friction exists in any venue, especially in space, then it's truly not a vacuum.
Science and the scientific community in collusion with governments are misleading the masses.
What if everything they are telling and teaching us is completely wrong? Then we MUST question everything and unlearn that which we were taught.
Voodoo is more specific than all of this mumble jumble.
There are no true verifiable laws to physics or science. They are all some fame seeking man's theory. A theory is not a fact. This whole thing here is RUBBISH!

 

Well.......I almost agree with you 100%. I do believe the modern theories are garbage.

But we do have some very well defined properties and characteristics of mass and charge. And I believe the physical universe can be explained with those properties. Not the origin now......just the present state. There is no way to determine the origin or substance of charge, because there is no reference for it. There would have to be something else in existence.....to compare to.

I believe the modern interpretation of our experiments is silly...............every since the standard model.
And astronomy has always been silly.

But academia is far too immense, too political and too invested, for anyone to care.

 

Wow, nice first post.

 

Yeah, it really tells me something.

 

Well.......I almost agree with you 100%. I do believe the modern theories are garbage.

Total and complete dross.

Modern theories are just extensions of existing knowledge and most are just common sense once you actually take the time to examine the basic theory in a simple context.
https://ia800806.us.archive.org/31/items/RelativityCommonSense/Bondi-RelativityCommonSense.pdf