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Keith Barrow wrote: What about an apple that has been put into low Earth orbit?
That is called a satellite. 
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QED: you can, potentially, eat a low-earth orbiting satellite.
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If you throw an apple hard enough, it will go into low orbit and not come back down.
This is the application (apple) of science (orbital mechanics)
Of course, it helps to remove the atmosphere first, and try it somewhere with lower gravity.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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OriginalGriff wrote: Of course, it helps to remove the atmosphere first, and try it somewhere with lower gravity.
I don't know how he is able to manage that, but, as matter of fact, any time I pass an apple to my brother, it will never comes back...
Veni, vidi, vici.
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CPallini wrote: I don't know how he is able to manage that
Easy: fill the room with politicians.
CPallini wrote: any time I pass an apple to my brother, it will never comes back
Is he in low orbit?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Science is a type of rigorous study. Ideas taken through to proof.
Hmm...
Most science is about disproving a theory or providing a best guess framework which works with current data.
There is not much Proof in science, mainly theory and supposition and a lot of thinking why the experiment did not produce the expected result.
The great truth about scientists is they start from the basis of "I Don't Know" and usually end with "I think it may be the case that..."
Unlike religion which starts with "This is the unadulterated truth and we are right and you will burn in eternal hellfire and damnation if you even begin to think contrary to what was written in this book by bronze age peasants" and ends with "Let's Kill People!".
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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On one of the Dave Allen programmes over the weekend it mentioned a conversation between an atheist & a man of the cloth.
MOC - You are rather like a blind man in a darkened room searching for a black cat that isn't there.
A - In a way, we are both like a blind man in a darkened room searching for a black cat that isn't there - except you have found it.
Regards, Stewart
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Technology: how to make money with science.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Sandeep Singh Shekhawat wrote: What are difference between Technology and Science?
Spelling?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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"He is not dreaming of Oz!"(9)
I think this is my favouritest clue ever!
I am chuffed thinking about how clever I am 
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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14.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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More of a nightmare!
But no.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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James May
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I assure you, he may not.
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Oh very droll 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Scarecrow - he has no brain and so can't dream and he's of OZ.
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Freaky experience of the day
Aquaplaning[^] ... with my motorcycle... 
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As long as you can tell the tale...
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Glad you survived - it's not a lot of fun, is it? You have my sympathies. Hopefully, you didn't fall off?
(Most people do the first time or two, particularly when they run out of water and don't have everything dead straight when grip returns).
It was brown trouser time my first time!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Nothing happened, but I do have some experience with my car and I wasn't turning either (luckily). Go straight, ease of the gas, but don't brake. It was over in about a second or so.
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That's where people go wrong - panic and hit the brakes. Does a grand total of nothing, until you run out of water... ouch!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Ow!
Broken ribs are nasty - but collarbones are worse!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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