Re: Relativistic aberration

Le 13/08/2024 à 20:08, hitlong@yahoo.com (gharnagel) a écrit :

On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:29:48 +0000, Richard Hachel wrote:

The guy, you tell him that four days after its
first outing, the Titanic hit a flying saucer, he
swallows it,

 I doubt that :-)

 You, yes, you doubt, because you are intelligent.
But you know, I have had a long life, and anyone who has seen a lot can have learned a lot: there are many idiots in the universe.
Millions of people believe today, because they have been told, that the Holy Virgin made a baby all by herself, contravening the very laws of nature and theology itself (I will place on your throne a fruit from your loins and your descendants).
Others believe that the prophet Muhammad traveled on a winged horse when Allah wanted him to (against the laws of nature that the good Lord himself had decreed and against the anti-spectacular logic of the hidden God of Isaiah).
Others believe that the Titanic encountered a flying saucer, and that the terrible shock caused the ship to sink majestically in one piece. I beg you to believe me: the guys are buying it.
Even Python, the greatest scientific critic of all time: he's buying it.
Okay, a few people are surprised to note that the two pieces were found in two different places, proof that they didn't sink together, but anyway. And a few people take seriously the belated testimony of passengers who said: "We were paid not to tell the truth. We shouldn't have said that the boat simply broke in two by itself."
So a flying saucer was invented, and the universe bought it.
Don't laugh, guys, they all bought it.
R.H.