Re: did man walk on the moon...and creationism.
Mike Painter
> On Nov 17, 10:49 am, Jack Dominey <jack.dominey+...@gmail.invalid>
> wrote:
>> In
>> <3fba0a39-f2a0-428d-a654-a61981407...@f16g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
>>
>> Suzanne <leila...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 14, 4:18 am, alextangent <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote:
>>>> On Nov 14, 3:46 am, Suzanne <leila...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> You stated elsewhere; "I went to the University of Texas in
>>>>>> Austin, Texas, the original campus. I was a physics major, but I
>>>>>> switched to Education." (post dated 3 May 2000). The physics
>>>>>> major piece I just don't believe for one second, as your
>>>>>> understanding of even the most simple physics is woeful. That
>>>>>> colours my opinion of anything else you say.
>>
>>>> Did you attend UoT as a physics major? Of course not. A silent fart
>>>> still smells.
>>
>>> Yes I did attend as a physics major.
>>
>> For how long were you a physics major? How many physics or
>> mathematics courses did you complete as a physics major?
>>
> The first year in college I was enrolled in physics,
> and that's it. This class that I attended was only
> for a guest lecturer that I wanted to hear. Now, for
> what reason are you asking me these questions?
Are you saying you spent a full college year, two semester, as a Physics
major?
A calculus class or two and some physics 101, mechanics, heat, light and
sound?
Ye Old One
Well we all know how well she did on light and sound :)
--
Bob.
Harry K
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I suspect that her "being in a physics major" actually consisted of,
at most, a quarter and the remainder of the year of walking by the
building. wShe is being remarkably silent on the subject.
Harry K
alextangent
I would bet a large hadron collider that Suzanne did not enter UT as a
physics major. My occasional comments in [brackets].
<quote>
After High School, I went to the University of Texas in Austin.
I have taken everything, you name it. Chemistry, Physics,
English, Business courses, German, Spanish, French,
various forms of Math, Biology...both branches [there are two branches
of biology?] ....remember
the good old acetabularia well. I can't look at a "paisley"
print without thinking of paramecium. Felt sorry for the
planeria (flat worm) whose head and tail we split to see
what the poor thing would do. I still remember the day
in Chemistry that I got a whiff of Flourine [made from wheat
presumably] gas and thought
I'd never recover from coughing. Made diamonds in a
crucible by burning carbon over a bunson burner [wtf?!?! Diamonds?].
Took
Logic, which I highly recommend to anyone.
</quote>
<quote>
My degree field was in secondary education and my major was English
[oh yeah. Inane insane, and writes like a 12 year old]. I wanted most
to become a physicist [chokes back tears of laughter], but decided on
the Teaching degree instead. It seemed more suitable to my desire to
also become a wife and mother someday in future. I was exempt from
various Math finals because my average was high, which was no big deal
and anyone could have done as well that studied. We did not have a
hand held calculator in those days, and so we all learned to use a
slide rule, which has to be a lost art now. I seemed to like
discovering why the math equations were created...they are shortcuts.
</quote>
<quote>
Once when the US was setting off an underground
A Bomb test blast, since I was the relay for my husband who
was 35 miles out from town in deep snowy canyon to secure
the site, the officials let me choose the time to set off the
bomb, and when I said 1-2-3-GO, they pushed the red
button [this is the stuff of psychiatry wards]. I noted the time
according to Greenwich Mean Time
and they told me the newspapers would report it a few minutes
later and they did. That was quite exciting.
</quote>
<quote>
I had some friends
at the University of Texas. One of my good friends went with
and married a really down to earth young man. They were
like people you might know living next door...in fact, she
was one of my housemates in my dwelling place. Her then
husband-to-be was so sweet and so uncomplicated. She
was also. She was the highest achieving scholar of all
time at the University. He became one of the space
shuttle astronauts [give me strength, another round of rocket
stories]. They were completely humble people.
</quote>
<quote>
Oh, gosh, and the scientists in my family are evolutionists,
to be sure. My grandparents (paternal) with whom we lived
(as my father had died) were very educated and had a very
inspiring home. My grandfather was a High School
principal, then he studied to be a lawyer. He became a
judge as well. He also ran for State Legislature in Florida
and he lost because the congressmen said, "he was too
honest". He was frequently in Tallahassee representing
various people as a lawyer. He was not a judge forever,
and when I knew him, he was a lawyer. He preferred that.
When he died in the 50's the State Legislature was in
session and they set aside that day in memorium to him,
which was quite an honor. They all knew him and he was
highly respected. He had not been to Tallahassee in a
few years just prior to his death, so to be remembered
like that was very touching to us [and this is possibly the only
checkable "fact" from a whole list of bs. Anyone want to do the
honours?]
</quote>
<quote>
I was in the 10th grade in high school in the fall of 1955 [presumably
15 or 16].
</quote>
<quote>
I do know about C14, but
this is one on me, for I never have heard that salt water would
give a wrong reading. I think it is possible that the person at
the website that wondered this could be getting this mixed up
with the calcium in seashells, which does not give an accurate
reading [actually, calcium doesn't give any sort of reading that's
meaningful. Still, it's only the letter a longer than a C, so the
mistake by someone who took Chem at UT is understandable].
</quote>
<quote>
What I meant by this, is that when we were in school growing up [prior
to 1957], we had all these books that said things about the seafloor
spreading [first recognised as a valid theory in the 1960s], and the
millions of years old that the earth is, and they would tell us this
in small lumps so that we could digest it easily.
</quote>
<quote>[no wait, the dates are all screwed up so...]
I graduated from high school in 1957 and was one of the younger
students to graduate [two years later at 17 or 18. Is that young?]. I
went to the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, the original
campus. I was a physics major, but I switched
to Education. The Theory of Plate Tectonics started in the early
'60's. I read every Scientific American, and every copy of
Science Digest then, plus current events, and of course the
newspapers
</quote>
There's more of this type of confabulation all over usenet. The women
is a veritable Walter Mitty.
But you all know that, because this toxic dump has been posting stuff
like this since at least 1998. That's a decade of porkies. Quite an
achievement, and porrf, if any were needed, that there is no god.
Well, certainly, no god to smite her for her lies, anyhow.
Harry K
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I saw stuff there that I had forgotten (lucky me!) or never read to
begin with. I usually just scan through her insane AND inane
ramblings.
Since 1998? No way. She goes back way farther than that. I seem to
recall her posting back in the Deja News days. For sure she was
active in this forum when I had my 486 (bought at the end of the 486
days)
Harry K