Myth: 1 G barrel rolls are impossible.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Helmsman: Well, sir, you said assume an orbit ...

No, the captain said assume a _standard_ orbit, which presumably would not
intersect the planet's surface.

Where is that defined?

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip writes:

And if you find everyone so tedious, why stay?

I don't find everyone here tedious.


Yes, you do. You have saud so.

There are lots of stupid people
in the world, but that doesn't mean I should write off the entire
species. I have a lot of patience.


No, you don't. Idiocy is not patience


Bertie

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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I throw a baseball into the air.


You would miss.

"El Maximo" wrote:
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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writes:

Helmsman: Well, sir, you said assume an orbit ...

No, the captain said assume a _standard_ orbit, which presumably
would not intersect the planet's surface.

Where is that defined?

Starfleet regulations - Sir!

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Orbit

:-0

Helmsman - set course out of this thread; maximum warp. Engage!

El Maximo writes:

Where is that defined?

What type of standard orbit would pass through a planet's surface?

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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El Maximo writes:

Where is that defined?

What type of standard orbit would pass through a planet's surface?

So , you're making it up.

El Maximo writes:

So, you're making it up.

That's why they call it science fiction.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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El Maximo writes:

So, you're making it up.

That's why they call it science fiction.

Nope. Orbits are not science fiction. They really do exist. Some night, when
you're back on your meds, go outside and look up. That big round thing in
the sky (most of us call it the moon, but you tend to make up your own
definitions, so I don't know what you call it) is "in orbit" around the
earth.

El Maximo wrote:
"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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I throw a baseball into the air.


You would miss.

Maybe more viagra to make him taller would help?

El Maximo writes:

Nope. Orbits are not science fiction. They really do exist.

Standard orbits for interplanetary spacecraft that can exceed the speed of
light are science fiction.

That big round thing in
the sky (most of us call it the moon, but you tend to make up your own
definitions, so I don't know what you call it) is "in orbit" around the
earth.

No, it's not. Both the Earth and Moon orbit the Sun; the Moon does not orbit
the Earth. If you don't believe me, plot the paths of the Earth and Moon
around the Sun to scale, and you'll see that the Earth never accelerates the
Moon away from the Sun. That's because it's actually in orbit around the Sun,
along with the Earth; they form a binary planet, the only one of its kind in
our planetary system.