@pettytalk said
If the speed of light is always constant, then it must also be assumed that it has no acceleration properties. It must reach its speed instantly, at the very moment of its creation. There is no time for acceleration? And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Also, if light is energy, and its speed is always constant, then, using a philosophical interpretat ...[text shortened]... ds, the diameter of a circle represents light traveling at twice its constant speed along that line.

That word 'assumed' leads to all kinds of bad decisions.

@suzianne said
Here's one story.

This is only ONE such story.

https://gizmodo.com/conspiracy-theorists-say-stare-at-eclipse-1851387594

Here's another:
Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks earthquake and eclipse are a warning from God

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-thinks-earthquake-220708429.html

And another:
Nothing true under the sun: Why solar eclipses are a breeding ground for conspiracy theories

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/05/nothing-true-under-the-sun-why-solar-eclipses-are-a-breeding-ground-for-conspiracy-theories/

@averagejoe1 said
And, we don't even know who they are....scary stuff.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/11-ways-biden-handler-hell-bent-destroying-america

This is an article by one of our most respected conservatives. He did
a bit of homework, and highlighted Biden activities which give us pause.

More fairy tales from Fox News.

@kellyjay said
Sun Tzu's "The Art of War
"An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes" is a quote from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"123.


If there is a terrorist attack in the homeland, do you think there will be justification on the left to remove rights for the good of the country?

That's thin, putting this on the left.

That's a Republican thing. Now in Trump's playbook.

@kilroy70 said
"If you are an observer on the front of the train, you would see a headlight normally"

The train is already traveling at c. So in order for an observer on that train to "see a headlight normally" photons from the headlights would have to be traveling at twice the speed of light.

But if that train was traveling at 99.9999% the speed of light then yes, photons emanating from the headlights could be observed traveling away from the train at c.

Relativity seems to be a misunderstood term, I guess.

Everything is relative to the observer's frame of reference.

An observer ON the train is hard pressed to tell if the train is moving, or if the environs is moving. As far as he can tell, the train is traveling at 0, especially at 0 acceleration. Add the speed of the headlight, c, and 0 + c = c.

I'm definitely not going to talk about time dilation in this environment, since it is even harder to grasp. Lorentz-Fitzgerald transformations, etc.

@fartacus said
Unlike the Democrats and the liberals and the commies, us so called right wing people don't blindly follow whatever is said or proposed.

All political parties have crazy people but the lefties will embrace anything that the crazy lefties make up or try.

Oh, really??

Donald Trump says you're wrong.

The Mandalorian & Grogu: Star Wars Movie Official Release Date Confirmed


https://comicbook.com/starwars/news/star-wars-mandalorian-grogu-movie-release-date-official-2026/

@shavixmir said
I was actually joking…

Do some people seriously think a solar eclipse is a conspiracy???

Here's one story.

This is only ONE such story.

https://gizmodo.com/conspiracy-theorists-say-stare-at-eclipse-1851387594

@averagejoe1 said
Which of the theories seems to be the most plausible if we view it seriously?

Stupid to ask for a "most plausible" from a field of lies.

@averagejoe1 said
Socialists like Shav fail to grasp that the social security payments, paid to citizens by the government each month after they turn 65 years of age, is derived from money that the recipients have put into the fund over their lifetimes.
Its OK Shav, we'll bring you along........

Yet you still want to take that away from them.

@averagejoe1 said
I so wish that our liberal friends can understand the simplicity of these words.

"Lies are truth", yeah?

After hearing "simple" from you weirdos for years, yeah, we understand it, and reject it.

@wajoma said
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and hon ...[text shortened]... iety is doomed.”
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Oh, and for the sake of ATY, 'pirates'. :^)

It's Ayn Rand. Duh.

A fiction writer with an agenda. Duh.

@averagejoe1 said
Should we include govt jobs when considering the societal and economic growth of the USA? THREE MILLION of our population are 'employed by' the government? Being paid by tax revenues? These are not jobs in the true sense of the word. These people put papers from the 'B' box into the 'A' box, that is about it. They make absolutely nothing.
I am sure everyone agrees with me. Therefore, the job report is just flat wrong.

So the title of the thread is a lie?

It figures.

@spruce112358 said
He prefers people who don't get captured.

I wish I could post pictures here. Got one of the 'Hanoi Hilton' in '94 where John McCain was held.

Me and a buddy wandered in and were looking around - gate was open - until an NVA guard ran up and threw us out. I guess they knocked down part of it and turned the rest into a museum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmtitosli88

Thank you for this video.

@averagejoe1 said
NO response from liberals about men who lost sight, legs and arms for our country. Could it be that they have an aversion to the military? Have they even thought of who would drop the secret wheypon on to Timbuktoo when it is necessary?
Libs are products of Biden.......he too is not interested in the vets, he is easily more concerned about the illegal immigrant trespassing criminals.

You follow Trump because he's done what no other politician has ever done: Enable stupid people to spew out whatever idiotic thing they can think of, and it becomes fact for other stupid people.