Believe what you want to believe. If Galileo were the last word on science, it would have gone no further. A genius, no doubt, but let's see him launch a spacecraft from earth, put a man on the moon, and return him safely to earth.
Ever see the old Roman distance markers on some European roads? Pretty accurate. But those same distances have been made more precise with modern measuring devices. To take that a step further, every piece of property ( in the Northeast) was surveyed in the 1700's and given it's dimensions. If modern methods were used to confirm this now, it is estimated that +/- 12% of landowners would end up with zip. If modern measuring devices were no better they wouldn't have been invented. RGZ Sent from my iPad On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 11:43 -0700, Anne Paulson wrote: >> So then if you timed me and Bradley Wiggins on the same course, with a >> stopwatch, you couldn't tell that he was faster, because maybe you >> weren't quite accurate with the stopwatch? No, you could easily tell, >> because the tiny difference in the stopwatch pressing would be >> overwhelmed by the fact that he is twice as fast as I am. >> >> Similarly with the tire tests. The differences between tires, >> surprisingly, were very large. Whatever small noise got introduced by >> stopwatch pressing was overwhelmed by the large measured differences >> between slower tires and faster ones. >> >> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:05 AM, Robert Zeidler <zeidler.rob...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Unless you can guarantee no variance in wind speed or direction, however >>> slight, or that the finger depressing the stop watch button at the exact >>> same second, every single time, just to cite two of many variables, what you >>> have is a Boy Scout Merit Badge project, not anything remotely resembling >>> real research. > > And Galileo's experiments were Boy Scout Merit Badge projects too, and > not real science, for the same reason? > > Anne's right. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
