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Walter Watts
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centrifugal force
« on: 2008-06-10 17:23:19 » |
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Re:centrifugal force
« Reply #1 on: 2008-06-10 19:29:44 » |
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Damn! I must be an overzealous teacher of science! I saw the topic and grinned. "There's no such thing as centrifugal force!" Then I looked at the cartoon and laughed like a drain. The villain is simply trying to mess with Bond's mind - to baffle him with science, like a Republican attempting to explain away NASA's research into Anthropologically caused Global Climate Change*.
Any high school graduate should know that d'Alambert's force (centrifigal force) is as fictional as the Coriolis and Euler forces, even in a rotating reference frame - which is the only place where you could credibly expect to find them as they are not required to account for motion in an inertial reference frame.
Which is what makes this a superb cartoon. Thank-you Walter.
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*After carefully reviewing the relevant facts and circumstances in this matter, we [NASA Office of Inspector General] conclude that officials in the NASA Headquarters Office of Public Affairs did, in fact, manage the release of information concerning climate change in a manner that reduced, marginalized, and mischaracterized the scientific information within the particular media over which that office had control. (PDF) [NASA Office of Inspector General]
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