NASA "Hidden Figure" during Space Race dies at 101
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Jimbeaux said:
Eric Mc said:
That's the essence of science - being sceptical.
You are correct sir. Just poking fun. 
I think you underestimate your contributions in these events. I’m with the other poster, we need to up your bookings.
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
Eric Mc said:
That's the essence of science - being sceptical.
You are correct sir. Just poking fun. I think you underestimate your contributions in these events. I’m with the other poster, we need to up your bookings.
Or Mr Velikovsky.
If it is he - here's some info on him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky
If it is he - here's some info on him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Velikovsky
Eric Mc said:
Precisely - although some of the conventional views held by planetary scientists and astronomers in the 1950s and 1960s who came down on Velikovsky like a ton of bricks have also been found to be way off the mark too - swamp covered Venus anyone?
Fair enough, but I'd say that was mere speculation and at least they had Venus staying in one place and not careering about the heavens like a crazed billiard ball.I have some sympathy with Velikovsky, even though his theories, taken individually, are crackpot.
I started studying geology in the mid sixties, and it was a very different science from what it is today. The first thing we learned about was the theory of uniformitarianism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism
Put simply, the same gradual processes that can be observed operating on the earth today, given sufficient time, can produce the strata and formations that we see around us. The great 19th century geologists, Hutton, Playfair and Lyell, were freed by the rejection of Biblical catastrophic concepts, like the Flood, and the succession of Old Testament generations, to conjecture much longer spans of geological time.
But during the course of my education, new work was emerging that revealed that indeed some catastrophic events had occurred that changed the course of geological history. Examples might be the extinction events that put pay to seemingly stable biodiversity, perhaps by comet strikes, or major volcanic eruptions, or the destruction of Doggerland in the recent post-glacial past.
Today, the pendulum has swung back from the strictly uniformitarian view of geological history, to an understanding of the role of brief periods of major change. Velikovsky, for all his shortcomings, was a voice pointing out that the occasional catastrophe had to be be taken into account when reconstructing the Earth's past.
I started studying geology in the mid sixties, and it was a very different science from what it is today. The first thing we learned about was the theory of uniformitarianism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformitarianism
Put simply, the same gradual processes that can be observed operating on the earth today, given sufficient time, can produce the strata and formations that we see around us. The great 19th century geologists, Hutton, Playfair and Lyell, were freed by the rejection of Biblical catastrophic concepts, like the Flood, and the succession of Old Testament generations, to conjecture much longer spans of geological time.
But during the course of my education, new work was emerging that revealed that indeed some catastrophic events had occurred that changed the course of geological history. Examples might be the extinction events that put pay to seemingly stable biodiversity, perhaps by comet strikes, or major volcanic eruptions, or the destruction of Doggerland in the recent post-glacial past.
Today, the pendulum has swung back from the strictly uniformitarian view of geological history, to an understanding of the role of brief periods of major change. Velikovsky, for all his shortcomings, was a voice pointing out that the occasional catastrophe had to be be taken into account when reconstructing the Earth's past.
Jimbeaux said:
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
Eric Mc said:
That's the essence of science - being sceptical.
You are correct sir. Just poking fun. I think you underestimate your contributions in these events. I’m with the other poster, we need to up your bookings.
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
Eric Mc said:
That's the essence of science - being sceptical.
You are correct sir. Just poking fun. I think you underestimate your contributions in these events. I’m with the other poster, we need to up your bookings.
All of this while remaining humble. Tough task but Eric pulls it off. Jimbeaux said:
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
Eric Mc said:
That's the essence of science - being sceptical.
You are correct sir. Just poking fun. I think you underestimate your contributions in these events. I’m with the other poster, we need to up your bookings.
All of this while remaining humble. Tough task but Eric pulls it off. bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
bolidemichael said:
Jimbeaux said:
Eric Mc said:
That's the essence of science - being sceptical.
You are correct sir. Just poking fun. I think you underestimate your contributions in these events. I’m with the other poster, we need to up your bookings.
All of this while remaining humble. Tough task but Eric pulls it off. 
Halmyre said:
Eric Mc said:
Precisely - although some of the conventional views held by planetary scientists and astronomers in the 1950s and 1960s who came down on Velikovsky like a ton of bricks have also been found to be way off the mark too - swamp covered Venus anyone?
Fair enough, but I'd say that was mere speculation and at least they had Venus staying in one place and not careering about the heavens like a crazed billiard ball.DeejRC said:
Eric most definitely isn’t in the industry!
And what I meant Jim was that the reality of working inside said industry is much less exciting that these threads imagine it to be. An awful lot of what gets said in these threads is also comically incorrect.
Much on PH is comically incorrect, on many subjects. I assume, however, You are referring to aeronautics and space flight?And what I meant Jim was that the reality of working inside said industry is much less exciting that these threads imagine it to be. An awful lot of what gets said in these threads is also comically incorrect.
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