Science

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)

17. I didn't call you stupid

Fri Dec 28, 2012, 04:04 PM

Dec 2012

And I didn't intend anything I said to be any kind of "smack down".

I just engaged with the point you made.

Your position SEEMED to be that everything was doable and that naysayers are always wrong.

I was just taking issue with the notion that EVERYTHING people dream up will eventually happen, which may or may not have been your point (but that's how it sounded to me).

I did not mean it personally. I did not intend to start a fight, and as far as I'm concerned we're not having a fight.

You're certainly right that many things that once seemed unachievable are now common place and we definitely don't know what other barriers might fall as we continue to pound on them.

Friends?

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

21 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Speed of Gravity equal to speed of light [View all] Ichingcarpenter Dec 2012 OP

Cool, I didn't know gravity went anywhere. iemitsu Dec 2012 #1

Gravity s working against me And gravity wants to bring me down Ichingcarpenter Dec 2012 #3

Gravity is working its evil ways on me too, iemitsu Dec 2012 #5

I thought I recognized John Mayer..... unhappycamper Jan 2013 #21

Look up gravity wave. I anticipate there is a Gravity spectrum analogous to ElectroMagnetic spectrum Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2012 #14

Sure, and gravitational wave detection schemes have frequency-dependent sensitivities caraher Dec 2012 #20

Assuming they're correct... gcomeau Dec 2012 #2

You know, I'm sure there was a time when we thought it was impossible to exceed the speed of sound dballance Dec 2012 #4

I don't believe there was ever a physical theory that said so. FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #6

That is a myth. Odin2005 Dec 2012 #10

Okay, I'm wrong - Happy now that I admit it? dballance Dec 2012 #11

"The really creative and intelligent people will find a way to exceed our foolish thoughts..." FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #12

I guess I'm just stupid dballance Dec 2012 #13

I didn't call you stupid FiveGoodMen Dec 2012 #17

Oh my friend dballance Dec 2012 #19

It may be that exploding atomic weapons has started a chain iemitsu Dec 2012 #16

Good grief. Gravity is only a theory. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author littlemissmartypants Dec 2012 #8

That's a strange thing to say. DavidDvorkin Dec 2012 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2012 #15

Fucking magnets. progressoid Dec 2012 #18