Ignorance"A girl who used to work for me believed that saveloys are made from fish because 'you get them from the fish shop'." Says Richard Mcbeef. He goes on to say "I was getting on for 40 before I became aware that medical doctors don't all have doctorates."
Tell us about your own embarrassing ignorance or that of others.
(, Thu 4 Feb 2016, 8:36)
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RocketsI once had a long, protracted argument with my father in law and (it pains me to admit it) my father about rockets.
Neither could be moved from their collective assertion that rockets worked because the exhaust gases exert pressure on the ground which forces them up.
So what if you launched a rocket from a tower a mile high?
So what about launching a rocket horizontally, in the sky?
After getting them to reluctantly accept that (using their theory) as a rocket climbs higher, the force it exerts upon the ground should diminish, my final gambit of suggesting that a climbing rocket, in their universe, will find a state of equilibrium where the rocket would just hover was just met with blank faces and me being asked 'why would you want a rocket to hover'?
My FIL is a bit of a div, but quite frankly I expected better from my dad. And no, they weren't winding me up.
(, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 17:20, 3 replies)
I hate your FIL.And to a slightly lesser extent, I hate your dad.
(, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 17:31, closed)
They weren't on their ownA major American newspaper's science column stated that a rocket to the Moon was impossible "because there's nothing to push against in space."
Shit - more ammo for the Nasa deniers.
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CharlesDexterWard no rush eh, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 19:44,
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