Talk:3159: Continents - Revision history

Explainyourself at 00:50, 18 November 2025

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2602:FF4D:128:D56:F921:27CF:8247:EA3F at 18:12, 28 October 2025

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	Humanity figured out it takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth 250 years before it figured out that galaxies outside ours exist. [[Special:Contributions/57.140.32.59\|57.140.32.59]] 19:11, 6 November 2025 (UTC)		Humanity figured out it takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth 250 years before it figured out that galaxies outside ours exist. [[Special:Contributions/57.140.32.59\|57.140.32.59]] 19:11, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Showed this one to my science teacher [[User:Explainyourself\|Explainyourself]] ([[User talk:Explainyourself\|talk]]) 00:50, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

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 :(Of course, it is speculated that this was more a 'decoy' secret so that the West would waste their resources trying to work out ''who'' the lead director of the soviet space programme was, rather than all on actually 'important' details. Whereas others think that it might have been genuinely a foreward-looking protection against the opposition working out where the more secret/less-public parts of the whole rocket-regime might end up going. Yet others just think that they didn't want a famous 'figurehead' who might have been acclaimed ahead of the political/governing leaderships themselves. Any which way, though, probably still not to be casually talked to, directly. More likely to address "Байконур", or similar.) [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8|2.98.65.8]] 20:50, 26 October 2025 (UTC)
 :How is who got to space first in any way relevant?  The point is that this flight is taking place before plate tectonics were understood, and there were many flights for which that was true.[[Special:Contributions/2602:FF4D:128:D56:F921:27CF:8247:EA3F|2602:FF4D:128:D56:F921:27CF:8247:EA3F]] 18:12, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
 In 1969 America was still segregated and Randall is worried about the lack of progress in Geology.
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 My Father was taught about continental drift at Imperial in the late 1950s. I studied Geology in the 1980s, and my professor Dan McKenzie did a lot of the hard maths.
-No black man was selected until the space shuttle programme - as described in "Once upon a time in Space". It ended well fo Col Bluford but less well for Ronald McNair. {{unsigned ip|178.17.254.16|23:46, 30 October 2025}}
+No black man was selected until the space shuttle programme - as described in "Once upon a time in Space". It ended well fo Col Bluford but less well for Ronald McNair. {{unsigned ip|178.17.254.16|23:46, 30 October 2025 (UTC)}}
 Humanity figured out it takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth 250 years before it figured out that galaxies outside ours exist. [[Special:Contributions/57.140.32.59|57.140.32.59]] 19:11, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

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−	Humanity figured out it takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth ~~200~~ years before it figured out that galaxies outside ours exist. [[Special:Contributions/57.140.32.59\|57.140.32.59]] 19:11, 6 November 2025 (UTC)	+	Humanity figured out it takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth 250 years before it figured out that galaxies outside ours exist. [[Special:Contributions/57.140.32.59\|57.140.32.59]] 19:11, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

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	No black man was selected until the space shuttle programme - as described in "Once upon a time in Space". It ended well fo Col Bluford but less well for Ronald McNair. {{unsigned ip\|178.17.254.16\|23:46, 30 October 2025}}		No black man was selected until the space shuttle programme - as described in "Once upon a time in Space". It ended well fo Col Bluford but less well for Ronald McNair. {{unsigned ip\|178.17.254.16\|23:46, 30 October 2025}}
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		+	Humanity figured out it takes light 8 minutes to get from the sun to the earth 200 years before it figured out that galaxies outside ours exist. [[Special:Contributions/57.140.32.59\|57.140.32.59]] 19:11, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

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 :Probably not. [[User:Redacted II|Redacted II]] ([[User talk:Redacted II|talk]]) 23:29, 24 October 2025 (UTC)
 :Nothing I've seen (genuinely) attributed to Armstrong seems to match this, from past passing over it or a quick search now.
 :He was a self-avowed deist, perhaps simplifiably as being in a "fire and forget" Creator who let things be as they turned out to be, so possibly ''before'' he could have been convinced about plate techtonics he ''might'' have indeed considered the apparently unchanging fundement of Earth to be just as unchanging as it he had assumed. Upon hearing good arguments for continental drift having happened (and perhaps getting an eyeful of [[3132: Coastline Similarity|at least the smoke from the smoking gun]], directly), I don't think he'd have stuck dogmatically to that view. He did later thank the politicians for letting him see what the Creator had made, but that was post-Apollo 11 and so probably into the era of accepting there were moving-continents (and at that time being stood firmly on the ground).
 :Generally, even the other astronauts seemed to avoid anything particularly religiously conservative, even if they were religious, though notably Apollo 8 (after this) broadcast an extended reading of Genesis and attracted some First Amendment objections. Buzz Aldrin had a toned-down 'holy communion' whilst at Tranquility Base, probably to balance against that backlash.
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 My Father was taught about continental drift at Imperial in the late 1950s. I studied Geology in the 1980s, and my professor Dan McKenzie did a lot of the hard maths.
-No black man was selected until the space shuttle programme - as described in "Once upon a time in Space". It ended well fo Col Bluford but less well for Ronald McNair.
+No black man was selected until the space shuttle programme - as described in "Once upon a time in Space". It ended well fo Col Bluford but less well for Ronald McNair. {{unsigned ip|178.17.254.16|23:46, 30 October 2025}}

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	:Good point. Apart from a certain degree of forced-secularism/state-atheism from the soviet system. Though uttering Korolev's name over an insecure (or potentially so) radio circuit would have probably have breached the secrecy behind his identity.		:Good point. Apart from a certain degree of forced-secularism/state-atheism from the soviet system. Though uttering Korolev's name over an insecure (or potentially so) radio circuit would have probably have breached the secrecy behind his identity.
	:(Of course, it is speculated that this was more a 'decoy' secret so that the West would waste their resources trying to work out ''who'' the lead director of the soviet space programme was, rather than all on actually 'important' details. Whereas others think that it might have been genuinely a foreward-looking protection against the opposition working out where the more secret/less-public parts of the whole rocket-regime might end up going. Yet others just think that they didn't want a famous 'figurehead' who might have been acclaimed ahead of the political/governing leaderships themselves. Any which way, though, probably still not to be casually talked to, directly. More likely to address "Байконур", or similar.) [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 20:50, 26 October 2025 (UTC)		:(Of course, it is speculated that this was more a 'decoy' secret so that the West would waste their resources trying to work out ''who'' the lead director of the soviet space programme was, rather than all on actually 'important' details. Whereas others think that it might have been genuinely a foreward-looking protection against the opposition working out where the more secret/less-public parts of the whole rocket-regime might end up going. Yet others just think that they didn't want a famous 'figurehead' who might have been acclaimed ahead of the political/governing leaderships themselves. Any which way, though, probably still not to be casually talked to, directly. More likely to address "Байконур", or similar.) [[Special:Contributions/2.98.65.8\|2.98.65.8]] 20:50, 26 October 2025 (UTC)
		+	:How is who got to space first in any way relevant? The point is that this flight is taking place before plate tectonics were understood, and there were many flights for which that was true.[[Special:Contributions/2602:FF4D:128:D56:F921:27CF:8247:EA3F\|2602:FF4D:128:D56:F921:27CF:8247:EA3F]] 18:12, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

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 :::Firstester! [[User:DollarStoreBa'al|Christopher Columbus]] ([[User_talk:DollarStoreBa'al|talk]]) 23:45, 19 April 1492 (UTC)
 ::::Firestarter! [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 09:35, 18 March 1996 (UTC)
 hi - [[Special:Contributions/97.64.61.191|97.64.61.191]] 13:40, 24 October 2025 (UTC)