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To: TexasGator
Once again. YOU FALSELY REPORTED WHAT THE PROFESSOR SAID.

Ok..I'm calling "shenanigans" on this one. The original link where the BC prof said cold weather could NOT have caused the deflation was this:

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/01/physicist_cold_weather_couldn_t_have_deflated_patriots_footballs

Note the "couln't have" in the URL. Suddenly the headline says cold weather COULD have changed the pressure. The headline now reads: Physicist: Cold weather could have deflated Patriots’ footballs. The article has changed. The entire article is different now. I originally excerpted this from that link:

“The pressure loss due to the temperature alone cannot be the issue in my mind,” said BC physics professor Michael J. Naughton, after plugging temperature data into a formula that calculates pressure loss. “If the footballs were notably lower pressure, then the only way it could have happened was if someone went in and stuck a needle in the ball and let two-thirds of the gas out, which means it is now up to the NFL to follow the chain of command — but no logical physics can explain the kind of pressure loss they’re talking about."

All of that text is now gone. And I stand accused of false reports. I hereby accuse the BOSTON HERALD of cheating by rescinding an article that was damaging to the pats and replacing it with one trying to vindicate them.
154 posted on 01/23/2015 4:48:47 PM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: mmichaels1970

“I hereby accuse the BOSTON HERALD of cheating by rescinding an article that was damaging to the pats and replacing it with one trying to vindicate them. “

Hmmm. They deliberately lied by altering the position and statements of a renowned professor in their home town?

I have to call BS on that one.


156 posted on 01/23/2015 4:57:12 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: mmichaels1970

And I stand accused of false reports.


At the least you stand accused of being gullible, because what was attributed in your earlier post isn’t possible.. The ball wouldn’t look like a football except in two dimensional view...maybe. The pressure would be about negative three PSI before the ball collapsed.


190 posted on 01/23/2015 6:02:05 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: mmichaels1970

“And I stand accused of false reports. “

I never accused you of false reports. I said you were a victim.


192 posted on 01/23/2015 6:05:32 PM PST by TexasGator
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