C'mon! That Saturn thing was good for hours of fun! I mean, when you pointed out that it would be downright difficult for Earth, having left Saturn's orbit (through some mechanism that prevented its destruction from the energy involved) to achieve a nearly-circular orbit around the Sun, you have the creo best-and-brightest chiming in with their "wildly elliptical" arguments. Oh the joy as each post by He-who-will-not-be-named dug deeper and deeper holes as he tried desperately to twist-and-shout his way out.
You can't say that wasn't enjoyable. Now we're stuck with word lawyers...
....you have the creo best-and-brightest chiming in with their "wildly elliptical" arguments. Oh the joy as each post by He-who-will-not-be-named dug deeper and deeper holes as he tried desperately to twist-and-shout his way out. Now THAT was fun!
You will always have the pleasure of remembering that an idiot who thought the planets were all in "wildly elliptical" orbits proclaimed that you "don't know beans about astronomy." There can be no higher form of praise than that.
I especially enjoyed his follow-on blather that "a circle is not an ellipse!" That was good for many hours of joyful hilarity that could be shared with anyone who had taken Analytic Geometry in High School.
But in the end, I think we really couldn't take much more of that stuff; I don't know about you, but seeing such ripe nonsense "1720" times was more than enough for me....