18 Jun '16 08:28>
Anyone seen this?
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/earth-has-captured-second-moon-says-nasa
Comments?
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/earth-has-captured-second-moon-says-nasa
Comments?
Originally posted by SuzianneThey are playing loose with the term 'moon'. It's a big rock maybe 200 feet across maximum.
Anyone seen this?
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/earth-has-captured-second-moon-says-nasa
Comments?
Originally posted by googlefudgeEven atheists obey God's Law of Gravity and in doing so are "gravitationally bound to the Earth."
I agree, this isn't an object that is gravitationally bound to the Earth, it isn't in orbit.
It is a potentially interesting place to go visit however.
If you were looking for a potential asteroid to mine, or do science on, the fact that
this is so close [in orbital mechanics terms] makes it a tempting target.
You could even give it a nudge and ...[text shortened]... space [at ~$10,000,000 per Tonne] is a potential
multi-trillion dollar saving in launch costs.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyAssuming you didn't mean that only purely as a metaphor;
Even atheists obey God's Law of Gravity and in doing so are "gravitationally bound to the Earth."
Originally posted by apathistWe can be pretty sure there is no bible god, the three Abrahamic religions were strictly man made. There was no god in the inception of those three religions. But this is the science forum and religion should not even be brought up here.
Science doesn't claim that there are no gods.
Originally posted by apathistbut Occam's razor implicitly does and Occam's razor is implicitly implemented in scientific method.
Science doesn't claim that there are no gods.
Originally posted by googlefudgeSure, give the asteroid a nudge, "Doh!" into the Earth
I agree, this isn't an object that is gravitationally bound to the Earth, it isn't in orbit.
It is a potentially interesting place to go visit however.
If you were looking for a potential asteroid to mine, or do science on, the fact that
this is so close [in orbital mechanics terms] makes it a tempting target.
You could even give it a nudge and ...[text shortened]... space [at ~$10,000,000 per Tonne] is a potential
multi-trillion dollar saving in launch costs.
Originally posted by humyIs it? Take dark matter. Either gravity behaves differently at large scales than it does here near the bottom of a gravity well, or half the universe is made of some exotic material we've never detected.
[b]but Occam's razor implicitly does and Occam's razor is implicitly implemented in scientific method. ...
Originally posted by apathistI agree that it is not clear that "There are no gods" is the simpler assumption than "There is at least one God.". An absence of gods from a cosmology (in the metaphysics sense) removes objects with the God predicate and the associated requirement to explain them at the expense of having to explain everything else. One could argue (probably not successfully though) for DeepThought's ontological argument: "If there were no gods then there would be a god vacuum and since nature abhors a vacuum there must be at least one god." (atheists will dislike this because of the conclusion, believers because it gives nature priority over God) and that this is simpler than having to explain the spontaneous existence of a universe but the absence of Gods. In the case of Dark matter it's a question of whether one considers modifying a paradigm theory or hypothesising undetected matter the more parsimonious assumption.
Is it? Take dark matter. Either gravity behaves differently at large scales than it does here near the bottom of a gravity well, or half the universe is made of some exotic material we've never detected.
Originally posted by apathist
Is it? Take dark matter. Either gravity behaves differently at large scales than it does here near the bottom of a gravity well, or half the universe is made of some exotic material we've never detected.
Is it?
Take dark matter. Either gravity behaves differently at large scales than it does here near the bottom of a gravity well, or half the universe is made of some exotic material we've never detected.