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To: telescope115
I thought the math pretty much took the guesswork out of it.

Far from nearby objects, even deep space probe location calculations are approximations. All models are wrong; a very small number are useful, sometimes.

Mathematics is eternal, without time, space, or energy, an inseparable branch of God. It's a perfect truth, while all our senses of the real world are approximations, technically lies. It's easy to ascribe God-tier perfection to mathematical models, but the perfection is only with the math itself, never its application to reality.

11 posted on 05/12/2023 11:23:11 PM PDT by Reeses
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To: Reeses

Variables.
From time to time I like playing this game

https://www.stefanom.org/spc/index.html

to amuse myself, plus it does help me to visualize what can happen when different planetary bodies interact with each other.


13 posted on 05/13/2023 6:52:46 AM PDT by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars. A Man, and proud of it!)
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To: Reeses

Agree!


14 posted on 05/13/2023 6:59:35 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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