Re: What has NASA done for the Earth?

In message <9scdf199mp5jghok55i3pp19019u6d181n@xxxxxxx>, Burnham Treezdown <dolphins@xxxxxxxx> writes 
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:50:14 -0700, "Evelyn Street"
<teacher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<Einstein's "discovery" of relatively

Einstein didn't discover anything.  Relativity is just a theory and it
wouldn't work in the real world.  The equations are just a bunch of
meaningless symbols that have no practical value.  Just fluff created to
dupe lesser scientists.



So this month the citizens of Hiroshima & Nagasaki are commemorating
fluff?

They sure are making a big deal out of meaningless symbols.

A novel used the idea that the atomic bombs were fakes (as, presumably, were the tests that have killed several thousand US citizens), but I can't remember anything else about it.
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    ... relativity _does_ work in the real world. ... It _is_ measurable, with high-precision equipment, at the speeds achieved ... that 'bunch of meaningless symbols' *does* accurately predict certain ... Scientists" has been passed on by acclamation. ...
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