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Offline Allan F

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #870 on: February 08, 2015, 09:56:27 PM »
Quote from: frenat on February 08, 2015, 09:44:29 PM
IDW aka Romulus claims he was responsible for the badastronomy forum getting shut down and becoming cosmoquest.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2682209/pg28#48775675

... and he's against atheism too. Could it be the root of his anti-science attitude? I know other hoaxers has used religious arguments and religious based beliefs as reason for their denial.
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Offline JayUtah

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #871 on: February 09, 2015, 12:25:31 AM »
What a maroon.  As if his sixty-odd posts were anything more than an unpleasant evening.  Besides, nothing got "shut down" so much as converted to new ownership.  Why is a branding change that retains the content something that needs to be bragged about?
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Offline onebigmonkey

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #872 on: February 09, 2015, 01:33:02 AM »
Quote from: frenat on February 08, 2015, 09:44:29 PM
IDW aka Romulus claims he was responsible for the badastronomy forum getting shut down and becoming cosmoquest.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2682209/pg28#48775675

Rarely have a seen someone with such a totally unfounded opinion of their own awesomeness,

Nice of him to quote the trajectory figures he claimed didn't exist :D

He claims not to be a rocket scientist (but does claim to be a theoretical astrophysicist!) but doesn't let that stop him discussing rocket science. I don't understand enough about trajectories and so forth to debate it, but I do know that claiming the LRV was stored inside the descent stage and that there is no record of its deployment shows a staggering lack of basic knowledge on a subject in which has invested so much effort in order to discredit it.
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Offline Dalhousie

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #873 on: February 09, 2015, 01:40:24 AM »
Quote from: Allan F on February 08, 2015, 09:56:27 PM
Quote from: frenat on February 08, 2015, 09:44:29 PM
IDW aka Romulus claims he was responsible for the badastronomy forum getting shut down and becoming cosmoquest.
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2682209/pg28#48775675

... and he's against atheism too. Could it be the root of his anti-science attitude? I know other hoaxers has used religious arguments and religious based beliefs as reason for their denial.

It's not as if atheists have been slow in coming up with conspiracy theories of their own!
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Offline ka9q

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #874 on: February 09, 2015, 01:43:03 AM »
I don't know if Apollo denial is associated with either atheism or religiosity. One of the most obsessed deniers, Hunchbacked/Inquisitive Mind, is a very vocal atheist.
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Offline Bob B.

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #875 on: February 09, 2015, 02:03:34 AM »
I see that IDW has now promoted me to Nazi.
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Offline Luke Pemberton

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #876 on: February 09, 2015, 02:13:01 AM »
Quote from: Bob B. on February 09, 2015, 02:03:34 AM
I see that IDW has now promoted me to Nazi.

obersturmfuhrer?
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Offline dwight

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #877 on: February 09, 2015, 02:24:58 AM »
Der Typ hat wirklich nicht alle Tassen im Schrank.
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Offline Dr.Acula

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #878 on: February 09, 2015, 04:59:26 AM »
Quote from: dwight on February 09, 2015, 02:24:58 AM
Der Typ hat wirklich nicht alle Tassen im Schrank.

That's absolutely true. In my region (Westphalia) we use a variation of this phrase: Er hat nicht alle Henkel an der Tasse. (He hasn't got all handles at the cups... translated word by word)  ;D
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Offline ka9q

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #879 on: February 09, 2015, 05:35:38 AM »
Amusingly, Google Translate understands this idiom and translates it non-literally into the equivalent English idiom: "the guy really doesn't have all his marbles".

There are so many English idioms with this same basic meaning that I doubt even Google knows them all. Let's see:

EN: "His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top."

DE: "Sein Aufzug nicht gehen den ganzen Weg nach oben."

As I suspected, looks pretty literal to me.

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Offline onebigmonkey

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #880 on: February 09, 2015, 05:36:51 AM »
Sitzpinkler </knowledge of German>
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Offline Dr.Acula

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #881 on: February 09, 2015, 05:49:20 AM »
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Offline Dr.Acula

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #882 on: February 09, 2015, 05:53:14 AM »
Quote from: ka9q on February 09, 2015, 05:35:38 AM
Amusingly, Google Translate understands this idiom and translates it non-literally into the equivalent English idiom: "the guy really doesn't have all his marbles".

There are so many English idioms with this same basic meaning that I doubt even Google knows them all. Let's see:

EN: "His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top."

DE: "Sein Aufzug nicht gehen den ganzen Weg nach oben."

As I suspected, looks pretty literal to me.

Me and some friends are joking with these literal translations from English to German. When we're having a beer outside we use a mix of English and German (it's called Denglisch - Deutsch und Englisch). So we translate some special phrases into English. For example the German phrase "Ich verstehe nur Bahnhof" (in the meaning: I don't understand the subject) to "I only understand railway station". The facial expressions of the people around us: Priceless  ;D
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Offline ka9q

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #883 on: February 09, 2015, 06:43:43 AM »
Well, you'd certainly have me confused.
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Offline Dr.Acula

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Re: What becomes of old 'friends'..
« Reply #884 on: February 09, 2015, 06:54:11 AM »
Quote from: ka9q on February 09, 2015, 06:43:43 AM
Well, you'd certainly have me confused.

So I've done my job well  ;D
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