And these are the people who can use force (violence) to ensure others lives are governed in the manner they see fit. :(

Briana Wu's knowledge is on the same level as this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cesSR...

LMAO!! Guam tipping over. Can we impeach because they are to stupid?

The leaning island of Guam.

It would be more expensive, but I should think that dropping the universal symbol of female enslave ment, i:e: the vacuum cleaner would be better than plain old rocks.

Uh...I'll stick with Newton on this.

I was thinking about that. Based on my very elementary knowledge of astrophysics...One could, in theory, launch a very large boulder backwards from the moon thereby putting it at the same distance from the earth as the moon, but without any centripetal force to keep it away from the earth. Of course, the earth would just revolve away from the boulder. So, never mind.

I'm still more worried about Guam...

Okay, to be fair, how many people really do understand how gravity works? Sure, Newtonian calculations can give really good results (accurate enough for most calculations within our own solar system - like Earth/Moon orbits, etc.). However, Newton's inverse-square law is only approximate, and empirical. The"real theory" (Einstein's Field Equations from General Relativity), gets quite a bit more complicated (and impossible to understand if you've never studied tensor calculus). But, for the layman, these field equations set down how 4-dimensional space-time is curved by the presence of matter-energy, and how matter-energy naturally follows "geodesics" in space-time. But then again, general relativity is a continuum theory (does not allow for quantum effects on very small scales). So, what about "supergravity?" (string theory? twistor theory?) What, really, is gravity? Does anyone really understand everything there is to know about it? Right now, probably not. But, at least we can use Newtonian calculations to calculate orbits pretty closely (just not close to the very strong gravity fields next to black holes). And if you want really accurate predictions, Newton's theory even breaks down when calculating the precise orbit of Mercury, as in the advance of the perihelion, which was measured many years ago, and general relativity accounts for it very well.

It's interesting how "stars" and "politicians" seem to get their knowledge from movies and comedians. I'm still trying to figure out what movie had Guam turning over. I notice there is a new (?) series on TV called Madam Secretary, that shows what Hillary must have done as Secretary of State. What a joke (and boring), I'd guess it's to persuade people to think the way the stars want them to. It would be interesting if the series actually showed the truth about Benghazi or one of the other failures of our government.

Would take pretty good aim to hit someone from that far away. Hell, I miss the trash can sometimes.

Brianna is an attention whore. She was the catalyst for the whole Gamergate brouhaha a few years back. She is a third-wave feminist and extreme SJW. She claims that during the gamergate scandal, that she had received numerous death threats and attempts at physical injury on her to the point of having to go on the run from her home. However, while supposedly on the run, she did an on-air interview on a major news network and there was a stain on the wall behind her, that just so happens to be an exact match to one in most of her youtube videos she shot from her home. So she makes assertions that have no basis in reality and when she gets pushback she doublesdown and claims she is being oppressed.

Mercy all them Dimm's.

I doubt it very much that the Congressional idiot ever read Heinlein. Or anything else, except for Cliff's Notes of Marx and everything published by Hussein and Hillary. There really is no reason to read anything more.

To her defense...that makes more sense than Guam tipping over...

Oh, clearly, the purpose was ultimately one of peace. Mike, Manny and Prof all wanted to just have Earth leave them alone, and to their rational minds, a demonstration of their abilities was logical. Unfortunately,m, they were dealing with politicians. Amazing how Heinlein, in his own way, mirrored Rand in showing how dangerous government and politicians can be. Notice there were no lawyers needed on the Moon?

You are 100% on target, and that is one of my major issues with political parties. They will sacrifice any and all for their perceived objectives, and rarely are those objectives matching the people they claim to represent. Hypocrisy is a standard component of our political system, and yet the masses as a whole, still buy it hook, line, and sinker.

Mike was trying to make threatening shots that didn't hit cities. If you didn't mind where you hit, you could probably find some courses that would intersect solidly.

Indeed, but if you are throwing rocks, don't you have a target? Besides, If you just toss them down the gravity well, they can hit at the wrong angle and bounce off the atmosphere. The trick in the book was Mikes targeting ability. Another thing Wu missed. But then that would have meant she ever read Heinlein, which does not appear to be so. To plebeian for her...

If you just want to hit the Earth with rocks and don't need precision landing all you need to do is to accelerate them beyond the lunar escape velocity (2.38 km/s -- still pretty damned fast) in a direction that the Earths gravity will pull them in. You don't need to put them in orbit or have them precision land.


In the book, one of the rocks had a glancing hit from a rocket which blew off it's maneuvering rockets and it missed it's carefully chosen target with great loss of life.

Never doubted it, having been consulting in Guam during a typhoon some years ago.;^)

And thanks to him Guam is safe from tipping over.

Pretty amazing how well it fits.

Thanks to youtube we know these aren't just urban legends.:-)

If they did, they would be passing over all the very capable caucasian potential candidates... oh, they already pass over them because they are too ethical to be manipulated by the GOP.
Bottom line is the GOP has written off the district and doesn't bother supporting their own candidates even when the opposition is an idiot (who has won reelection unopposed twice.)
Another example of democracy, with 57% black wolves deciding to have 31% caucasians and 10% hispanics for dinner.
The party of inclusion (D) is as racist hypocritical as they come.

Oh, I thought you were talking about my idiot Dumbocrap, but you had Rich's. It's so hard to keep them apart, they all look (and sound) alike. I almost got sick reading the Wiki, in that you are correct, it did look like a Racist setup if ever there was one, talk about carpet bagging...The poor white, female Republicrat didn't stand a chance, and then the next 2 rounds were free, until they tried a Latino, which also didn't fly well. Can't the Republicrats find a black (or can claim to be black) Republicrat in Georgia? Really?