Saturday, November 17, 2012
HAM INTERVIEWS WADE (CONTINUED)
Ham: Now, continuing on with further dissertations, ad litum, ad vilitivium, etcetera, etcetera... I should note forth first -- and perhaps most importantly...
Wade: What are you trying to say?
Ham: Well, you see, various theories have been promulgated ---
Wade: You're a gorilla.
Ham: Ad nauseum.... pardon me? Did I understand you correctly? You're calling ME a gorilla?
Wade: Don't take it personally.
Ham: Oh nothing personal. Well, now let's see. Where was I? Yes, indeed. You see, perhaps the most important concept, indeed, one might even go far as to say, crucial concept, concerning various proposals that have made theoretical concepts of a more critically practical introspective nature...
Wade: That's enough.
Wade: What are you trying to say?
Ham: Well, you see, various theories have been promulgated ---
Wade: You're a gorilla.
Ham: Ad nauseum.... pardon me? Did I understand you correctly? You're calling ME a gorilla?
Wade: Don't take it personally.
Ham: Oh nothing personal. Well, now let's see. Where was I? Yes, indeed. You see, perhaps the most important concept, indeed, one might even go far as to say, crucial concept, concerning various proposals that have made theoretical concepts of a more critically practical introspective nature...
Wade: That's enough.
Friday, November 16, 2012
December 15th Book Signing - Books-A-Million
On Saturday, December 15th, noon-5:55pm, I'll be signing 'Question Answered' and 'Other Life Exists' at Books-A-Million. (770)-529-6619. 3372 Cobb Pkwy NW, Ste 100, Acworth, GA, 30101.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
New Intellectual Theories
Newton's Theory of Gravity wasn't the first theory. Nor was Maxwell's Theory of Electromagnetism.
So too with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It wasn't the first theory; it won't be the last.
So too with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It wasn't the first theory; it won't be the last.
HAM INTERVIEWS WADE (CONTINUED)
Ham: You see kid, you gotta understand the business.
Wade: Oh yeah?
Ham: Yeah. You know, I've been around a long time. Space travel, that sort of thing. It wasn't easy designing a rocket for NASA. You young guys, you think you know everything. If you're so smart, how do you get over to the next galaxy? Ever given that any thought?
Wade: Well, I... suppose that would take effort.
Ham: That's right. Think about it. Give it some thought. You expect me to work on union wages. It's ridiculous. I've been around. Got an established name. I WAS THE FIRST CHIMP IN SPACE. And besides, men are apes.
Wade: Men are apes?
Ham: That's right.
Wade: Actually, men are men and apes are apes.
Ham: What do you know?
Wade: More than you.
Ham: How do you KNOW you know more than me?
Wade: That's my view of the world.
Ham: Well...
Wade:
Ham: ... If you don't shutup, I'll cutoff this interview...
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Intellectual Schemata
I mean no offense to Einstein or his followers. I respect all the various physical theories -- Newton, Gamow, and Maxwell. I've studied them. I've studied others. But these are only intellectual schemata.
I really wish physicists could think a little more like attorneys who are comfortable with exceptions. The common phrase is there's an exception for every rule. I understand that Einstein's Theory of Relativity prohibits travel beyond the speed of light. But again, this is only one intellectual schemata.
I really wish physicists could think a little more like attorneys who are comfortable with exceptions. The common phrase is there's an exception for every rule. I understand that Einstein's Theory of Relativity prohibits travel beyond the speed of light. But again, this is only one intellectual schemata.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
HAM THE SPACE CHIMP INTERVIEWS WADE HOBBS
an exclusive for BigQuestionAnswered.blogspot.com...
Image courtesy of NASA.
Ham: Wade...
Wade: Don't say it.
Ham: Wade, what makes you an idiot?
Wade: That's highly offensive.
Ham: You're an idiot.
Wade: I'm smarter than you.
Ham: No you're not.
Wade: Prove it.
Ham: Easily done.
Wade: Go right ahead chimp.
Ham: In the 1950's, I went to space.
Wade: So what.
Ham: What do you mean, so what?
Wade: I mean I'm talking to a chimp, chimp. You went to space, but you don't know the meaning of so what?
Ham: You're an ape.
Wade: Takes one to know one...
Ham: Give it a rest.
Wade: Why don't you?
Ham: Look. I'm simply trying to make a point. I was the first American in space. Do you understand that? Comprehend? I was there before Alan Shepard.
Wade: Yeah but he played golf before you.
Ham: Look kid...
Wade: Have you even played golf?
Ham: Look-
Wade: Been to the moon?
Ham: Look. Enough. Just wait a minute.
Wade: Easily.
Ham: You're kind of a young whippersnapper, aren't you?
Wade: I just think I'm smarter than you, Ham.
Ham: Au contraire.
Wade: Why don't you get clucked.
Ham: What do you mean, clucked.
Wade: I mean, Get clucked.
Ham: Such language. Watch it or I'll have you kicked out of the space program.
Wade: Humph... Ham you're a chimp.
Ham: I also beat the Russians to space, did you notice that?
Wade: Yeah right.
Ham: Why the chimp-ophobia?
Wade: Oh Jesus.
Ham: Do you feel uncomfortable around chimps? Have you seen a professional? I AM a chimp.
Wade: Dear God.
Ham: Let's not get into religion.
Wade: Ok. Look. My point is that you never played golf on the moon did you?
Ham: So.
Wade: Well...
Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Excerpt from 'Question Answered'
A Dude named Democritus
Democritus was an ancient Greek. In fact, he was young at some point but eventually became a philosopher. He lived over 2,000 years ago. Modern philosophers like Dr. David Darling, who earned his PhD at Manchester University, credit Democritus with the original idea that life must live outside Earth. Dr. Darling is reviving the idea.
In his online Encyclopedia of Science, Dr. Darling explains that the planets are not entirely separate worlds, despite traditional beliefs. When a large asteroid falls to Mars, for example, the impact throws debris into space. Very large impacts throw huge amounts of debris into space, and over the course of millions or billions of years, some of the debris reaches the Earth, where it falls in the form of meteorites. The Earth is 4.57 billion years old so plenty of material has transferred between the neighboring planets. Geologists offer the Martian meteorites on Earth as evidence.
This is a really cool picture of the rover. Image courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Another meteorite comes from the asteroid Vesta. The meteorite and the asteroid share a common chemical composition.
Both Jupiter and Earth come from the original planetary nebula that formed the Solar System. And over the course of 4.57 billion years, material may have transferred between the two bodies, or between one of the Jovian moons and Earth. During those billions of years, an asteroid may have impacted a Jovian moon, sending debris into space. Eventually, such debris may have gravitated to Earth’s surface as a meteorite. But currently scientists have only found meteorites from Mars, Vesta, and the moon.
Alternatively, debris from a large meteorite collision here on Earth might find its way into space. For very large meteorites, like the one that hit near the Yucatan peninsula and killed the dinosaurs, debris might be thrown into space.
An asteroid transferring materials between a small Jovian moon and Earth is an even more likely scenario. A large asteroid might for example, collide with one of the small Jovian moons and survive the collision. Material from each body might transfer. As the asteroid approaches the Sun, collisions with other asteroids might send debris to Earth.
Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs.
Democritus was an ancient Greek. In fact, he was young at some point but eventually became a philosopher. He lived over 2,000 years ago. Modern philosophers like Dr. David Darling, who earned his PhD at Manchester University, credit Democritus with the original idea that life must live outside Earth. Dr. Darling is reviving the idea.
In his online Encyclopedia of Science, Dr. Darling explains that the planets are not entirely separate worlds, despite traditional beliefs. When a large asteroid falls to Mars, for example, the impact throws debris into space. Very large impacts throw huge amounts of debris into space, and over the course of millions or billions of years, some of the debris reaches the Earth, where it falls in the form of meteorites. The Earth is 4.57 billion years old so plenty of material has transferred between the neighboring planets. Geologists offer the Martian meteorites on Earth as evidence.
Another meteorite comes from the asteroid Vesta. The meteorite and the asteroid share a common chemical composition.
Both Jupiter and Earth come from the original planetary nebula that formed the Solar System. And over the course of 4.57 billion years, material may have transferred between the two bodies, or between one of the Jovian moons and Earth. During those billions of years, an asteroid may have impacted a Jovian moon, sending debris into space. Eventually, such debris may have gravitated to Earth’s surface as a meteorite. But currently scientists have only found meteorites from Mars, Vesta, and the moon.
Alternatively, debris from a large meteorite collision here on Earth might find its way into space. For very large meteorites, like the one that hit near the Yucatan peninsula and killed the dinosaurs, debris might be thrown into space.
An asteroid transferring materials between a small Jovian moon and Earth is an even more likely scenario. A large asteroid might for example, collide with one of the small Jovian moons and survive the collision. Material from each body might transfer. As the asteroid approaches the Sun, collisions with other asteroids might send debris to Earth.
Copyright, 2012. Wade Hobbs.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Book Signing! Cafe de Paris
Book Signing! Saturday, November 17, 10am-2pm, Cafe de Paris, 1100 Johnson Ferry Rd, Marietta, GA 30068.
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