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  • Originally posted by kentonio View Post
    Because when you put a scientist on TV they suddenly stop being a real scientist?
    I dunno... when they put historians on the History Channel, we don't always pay attention to them (and rightly so).
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    • What is the reason why some protestant groups fear them?
      Because they were good at their job of bringing souls to the Pope?
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      • Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat View Post
        There are two basic techniques we can use to detect exoplanets. The first was changes in periodicity and luminosity. This is what Geoff Marcy et al used to discover the first exoplanets. When you have a smallish star and a close orbit super-jovian planet or planets, the center of mass of the system as a whole is significantly offset from the center of mass of the luminous star. Basically, the bodies in the system don't revolve around the star (as in our solar system, where center of SS mass is very close to the center of sun mass), they all revolve around a common point - the SS center of mass. So the star shifts luminosity and/or position* ever so slightly in a predictable way, and from accurate measurement of those changes, you can infer a solution for the location and mass of the exoplanet without ever directly observing it. That technique only works with super-jovian planets in very close orbits, but it was what we had within the technological limits in 1994-95 when the first successful observations were made.
        You're correct that this technique is best for detecting massive, short-period planets, but it's not exactly because the center of mass is off-center from the star. Technically, the farther a planet is away from its parent star, the farther outside the star the center of mass of the system is. But the farther a planet is from the star, the longer its period, and the longer the period, the smaller the change in velocity of the parent star.

        So you want to maximize the mass of the planet and minimize the distance from the star. These work in opposite directions as far as the center of mass is concerned, and it turns out that decreasing the distance between the two bodies has more of an effect on the velocity than increasing the mass, which means that for maximal effect, you end up minimizing the distance between the star and the center of mass.
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        • It's also why MOST has been so effective, since it can detect periodic perturbations.
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          • Originally posted by molly bloom View Post


            Alas, what hope is there for many Roman Catholics after the kind of upbringing they had ?

            not much, the images, the ideas, the smells and bells, they get a grip on the mind, always there even for the lapsed.

            but it's not all bad, at the very least it challenges people to seek meaning in life, even if they ultimately find it elsewhere, some return in the end, some don't, but the door is always open
            Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

            Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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            • Originally posted by Jon Miller View Post
              I have a question.

              Lot's of old school protestants are very anti-jesuit (I mean the type that are anti-catholic, they are even more anti-jesuit).

              However, when I read about the jesuits they seem like a good group.

              What is the reason why some protestant groups fear them?

              JM
              The only bad thing the Jesuits really did is popularizing casuistry, that was condemned later by the Pope in the XVIII century.
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              • Originally posted by Jon Miller View Post
                What is the reason why some protestant groups fear them?

                JM
                They eat Protestant babies.

                Actually because they were the intellectual shock troops of the Roman Catholic Church in the Counter Reformation- responsible with educating new generations of Roman Catholics across Europe and the Americas and even Asia.

                In the 30 years war, I also think some of them was leading Catholic armies, but that might be my brain doing tricks on me
                Nikolai

                Not entirely- one of the battles of Nordlingen was won (in part) by the Cardinal Infante:

                Peter Paul Rubens here commemorated the meeting of King Ferdinand III of Hungary and the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand at Nördlingen on the Danube River on September 2, 1634. Four days later, the two Catholic rulers would combine their armies to win an important victory over Protestant forces. At the upper right, the Cardinal-Infante solemnly greets his cousin Ferdinand.



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                • Originally posted by Ben Kenobi View Post
                  Because they were good at their job of bringing souls to the Pope?
                  The pope is... Voldemort?

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                  • Did you ever see the movie "Fallen" with Denzel Washington? That's how I imagine the papacy works. Azazel jumps from body to body... always inhabiting whoever is pope.
                    To us, it is the BEAST.

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                    • That's the catholic theology, I believe.
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                      • Originally posted by kentonio View Post
                        The pope is... Voldemort?


                        Don't say HIS name!
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                        • fine; He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named
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                            • Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
                              That's the catholic theology, I believe.
                              not to mention the polytheistic saint worshipping
                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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                              • Veneration!= Worship.
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