Two phrases I want you to memorize. You will virtually never hear them on the TV in any country.
1. weapons grade
2. escape velocity
Iran claims it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. Of course, anyone with an elementary physics background knows that's bullshit. They could produce decades of power grade enriched uranium just from running their current number of centrifuges for 6 months. People also forget that the more radioactive a substance, the faster it decays. You don't pre-produce enriched uranium.
Their current level of production can only be solely for weapons grade enrichment. Either that, or they are stockpiling uranium that will be useless.
North Korea claims they successfully tested space launch capability, and have put a satellite in orbit. Anyone who was tracking the rocket they launched with an elementary physics background also knows that's bullshit as well. There is this little term called "escape velocity." I know a lot of people think rockets go "straight up into space" (I'll never forget the girl in my high school who screamed, "oh no, the shuttle's going to crash!" when it was being launched into a highly elliptical orbit more towards the poles), but they don't. They go so fast at a specific vector so the centripetal ***** at that vector results in a rotation (which is not always circular) around the Earth that is the same vector towards the Earth as the gravity is pulling down from that altitude. Hence why there is a fixed velocity required for a specific altitude (or average in altitude, long story, but it's as old as Kepler and 16th Century physics).
North Korea's most recent test was a sub-orbital, long-range rocket. Everyone knows it. They know it. The level of bullshit is beyond belief in this case as well.
But, apparently, China and Russia have people who never studied physics. Or, more likely, this is all rhetoric from their end as well. It doesn't matter if you're right. It only matters if people believe your bullshit.
The media around the world are definitely far more ignorant of basic physics, so these are two phrases you'll either never hear, or at least rarely hear. In fact, if you do hear them, they will made in such a way that anyone who knows anything about them will know they don't know what they are talking about.
Heck, I recently caught some of the recent Shuttle coverage on local TV (in Florida) during both the launch and landing, and I couldn't believe someone that is allegedly the "NASA expert" at the station spewed information like they didn't even know what they were talking about. Then I found out they were actually fed nationally, and I heard even the anchor with one of the major networks totally spewing details that were either so wrong or so out-of-context.
Twenty plus years ago, that would not be accepted in US journalism. But today, people seem to have absolutely no background in what they report on at all. Hence why this bullshit seems to continually fly.
And not only does the rhetoric from various leaders and media outlets of various countries insult my intelligence, but I'm having great difficulty finding a media outlet that doesn't either -- the US or abroad. I don't expect people to be experts, but I do tired of rhetoric prying on the ignorance of others. But that seems to be a growing trend, as with each passing year, more and more people think the Moon Landings were faked and the WTC was brought down with explosives.
Sometimes I honest to fucking God wish I wasn't an engineer, and failed every physics course, let alone had no scientific aptitude to ever take a physics course. Sometimes only though.
1. weapons grade
2. escape velocity
Iran claims it is enriching uranium for peaceful purposes. Of course, anyone with an elementary physics background knows that's bullshit. They could produce decades of power grade enriched uranium just from running their current number of centrifuges for 6 months. People also forget that the more radioactive a substance, the faster it decays. You don't pre-produce enriched uranium.
Their current level of production can only be solely for weapons grade enrichment. Either that, or they are stockpiling uranium that will be useless.
North Korea claims they successfully tested space launch capability, and have put a satellite in orbit. Anyone who was tracking the rocket they launched with an elementary physics background also knows that's bullshit as well. There is this little term called "escape velocity." I know a lot of people think rockets go "straight up into space" (I'll never forget the girl in my high school who screamed, "oh no, the shuttle's going to crash!" when it was being launched into a highly elliptical orbit more towards the poles), but they don't. They go so fast at a specific vector so the centripetal ***** at that vector results in a rotation (which is not always circular) around the Earth that is the same vector towards the Earth as the gravity is pulling down from that altitude. Hence why there is a fixed velocity required for a specific altitude (or average in altitude, long story, but it's as old as Kepler and 16th Century physics).
North Korea's most recent test was a sub-orbital, long-range rocket. Everyone knows it. They know it. The level of bullshit is beyond belief in this case as well.
But, apparently, China and Russia have people who never studied physics. Or, more likely, this is all rhetoric from their end as well. It doesn't matter if you're right. It only matters if people believe your bullshit.
The media around the world are definitely far more ignorant of basic physics, so these are two phrases you'll either never hear, or at least rarely hear. In fact, if you do hear them, they will made in such a way that anyone who knows anything about them will know they don't know what they are talking about.
Heck, I recently caught some of the recent Shuttle coverage on local TV (in Florida) during both the launch and landing, and I couldn't believe someone that is allegedly the "NASA expert" at the station spewed information like they didn't even know what they were talking about. Then I found out they were actually fed nationally, and I heard even the anchor with one of the major networks totally spewing details that were either so wrong or so out-of-context.
Twenty plus years ago, that would not be accepted in US journalism. But today, people seem to have absolutely no background in what they report on at all. Hence why this bullshit seems to continually fly.
And not only does the rhetoric from various leaders and media outlets of various countries insult my intelligence, but I'm having great difficulty finding a media outlet that doesn't either -- the US or abroad. I don't expect people to be experts, but I do tired of rhetoric prying on the ignorance of others. But that seems to be a growing trend, as with each passing year, more and more people think the Moon Landings were faked and the WTC was brought down with explosives.
Sometimes I honest to fucking God wish I wasn't an engineer, and failed every physics course, let alone had no scientific aptitude to ever take a physics course. Sometimes only though.
