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November 3rd 14, 09:21 PM
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No antennae radiate all the power fed to them!
Lostgallifreyan wrote:
wrote in : Where do you get all this nonsense? Those examples, from a BBC article sometime, and also some book on space when I was a kid. So they were wrong... I have to ask, do you second guess absolutely everythign you hear? Calling nonsense nonsense is not second guessing. The examples I gave were also mentioned in part of a school class, so even if it wrong, it ended up part of a lot of people's thoughts, so maybe you should berate the people who started the mess, not the ones who ended up inheriting it. If your education stopped when you walked out of the school house door, that is your fault, not the schools. There are lots of old wive's tales, urban legends, and other nonsense a lot of people believe but quoting them without bothering to check the veracity of them is your failing and yours alone. If, for example, you had bothered to do a little research on the history of the ballpoint pen, you would have discovered they were invented in 1888 but manufacturing problems keep them from becoming a common writting tool until shortly after WWII when those problems were solved. Once the practical problems were solved, sales of ballpoint pens took off and they rapidly replaced quill and fountain pens. Space had nothing to do with the commercial success of the ballpoint or the fact that the Bic disposable is the most widely sold pen in the world. So if there is any lesson to be learned from this, it is that a little research before posting is a GOOD idea. -- Jim Pennino |
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