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What a space-traveling tree might look like.

HAHAHA Wood, get it!!

Visordown: HAHAHA Wood, get it!!

I did viewing the ScarJo thread

Just don't bring Alan Turing's apple into space.

revrendjim: bad idea. In zero-g the apple won't fall, thereby invalidating Newton's theory and all the physics hence.

since the whole idea is about an apple being attracted by earth's gravity, I'd go on a space walk and throw the apple toward earth to generate a crispy apple comet

Dear God! They've gone from Nanny to Loony. Fire the Missles!

Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a biatch in space!

He also invented the cat-flap. It would be a bigger achievement to send a cat into space, why do they insist on a stupid plant? They could use the cat to demonstrate the effect gravity too.

Puns are awful but that one is especially weak.

turntable slave: Just don't bring Alan Turing's apple into space.

Dude, that would be hella gay.

fyrewede: Arklop: What a space-traveling tree might look like.

Came here for a reference to The Fountain. Leaving most gratified. And posted so soon no less. Bravo, Arklop!


Happy to serve, good sir. Though I gotta say, I didn't really get that film. My wife tried explaining some of the underlying themes to me, but it's still like watching a David Lynch episode of Lost.

Arklop: Happy to serve, good sir. Though I gotta say, I didn't really get that film. My wife tried explaining some of the underlying themes to me, but it's still like watching a David Lynch episode of Lost.

It's nothing a little Karl Jung and a few games of Rifts wouldn't fix. it's pretty much straightforward psychobabble. It's well-written psychobabble, but I think the movie's redeeming charm is the eye candy and that's about it.

I always thought the apple thing was a complete myth.

Something handy to teach the kids, but just made up.

Haoie: I always thought the apple thing was a complete myth.

Something handy to teach the kids, but just made up.



Made up like this?

Horrible pun, subby. Didn't really have anything to do with the article.

Gonna jump on the hatewagon here.

Punmitter, I am disappoint.

I'm sure I approve of all this sentimental fetishism from astronauts.

not sure, I'm NOT sure

/and my shiat's all retarded

Given that the apple story is widely regarded as a myth, maybe made up by Newton to explain gravity to stupid people (he was very antisocial and thought everybody stupid), and that there is much dispute over which trees may be descended from trees that Newton may have hung out with (similar to disputes over "true pieces of the cross"), this seems like a stupid thing for a "scientist" to do.

It would be sort of like doing something with a sliver of wood from the handle of the axe that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree, even though the head and handle on that axe have both been replaced several times and the whole story of that episode was made up about a century after it supposedly happend.

"While it's up there, it will be experiencing no gravity,

This guy is an astronaut?

Newton thought he was so clever, but when he died... he fell over.

Gravity will not be mocked, my friends.

HairBolus:
It would be sort of like doing something with a sliver of wood from the handle of the axe that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree, even though the head and handle on that axe have both been replaced several times and the whole story of that episode was made up about a century after it supposedly happend.

just like the ship of theseus!

traylor: He also invented the cat-flap. It would be a bigger achievement to send a cat into space, why do they insist on a stupid plant? They could use the cat to demonstrate the effect gravity too.

0G cat (video, new window)

What about his entire collection of Johnny Cash?

so the tree branch will fit in a soyuz?

"British NASA astronaut to take a piece of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree into space. Given the chance, wooden't you?"



Gnaw.

HairBolus: Given that the apple story is widely regarded as a myth, maybe made up by Newton to explain gravity to stupid people (he was very antisocial and thought everybody stupid), and that there is much dispute over which trees may be descended from trees that Newton may have hung out with (similar to disputes over "true pieces of the cross"), this seems like a stupid thing for a "scientist" to do.

It would be sort of like doing something with a sliver of wood from the handle of the axe that George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree, even though the head and handle on that axe have both been replaced several times and the whole story of that episode was made up about a century after it supposedly happend.

Perhapse you should read the article, which says and I quote:

Several sections stripped from the tree, which still stands at Woolsthorpe Manor, the physicist's former home in Lincolnshire, are stored in the society's vaults as part of a huge collection of Newton memorabilia donated by the antiquarian Sir Charles Turner in the 1700s.