Bring the aether back!

Discussion in 'The Chatterbox' started by Bama Samurai, Apr 14, 2018.

  1. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Yes.

    One for you:

    Notice how the return announcement on TV doesn't say:

    "We now return your television set to its normal operant condition."

    Rather, the announcement is more along the lines of:

    "We now return YOU to YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING."

    Why is that?
     
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  2. Weasel640

    Weasel640 Well-Known Member

    Cause that's how they used to say it on the radio before TV...
     
  3. Keithmax

    Keithmax Breeds Pet Rocks

    I vote for bringing ether back.
     
  4. wchnu

    wchnu Duck Season!

    You write on a touch pad..I can use my finger on my watch..and the software converts it into letters posted here.....now can we get back to the OP?
     
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  5. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    I've always been fond of the interstitial aether, but phologiston theory seemed to contradict.
     
  6. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

    Aether or.
     
  7. gorgo2

    gorgo2 geezerhood

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  8. Primotenore

    Primotenore missed opera tunity

    Article Team
    Now I get it...
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    See what I did here?
     
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  9. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Seven layers and loopy?
     
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  10. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Post a picture of Zeta Reticulan?
     
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  11. Primotenore

    Primotenore missed opera tunity

    Article Team
    That too...;)
     
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  12. brit

    brit in a box

    beam me up scotty, i can t jim,my finger is stuck in the pencil sharpener.... sorry too much baileys and coffee...
     
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  13. DesertTime

    DesertTime Well-Known Member

    Was it ever really gone?
     
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  14. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    "The Aether" as a medium for the propagation of light waves was a popular 19th Century idea. Fell into disfavor, to the point A.Einstein rewrote Maxwell's equations as the special theory of relativity without referring to the aether at all.
    We've about gone full swing of the theoretical pendulum with dark matter & dark energy hypothesis.

    Everything old is new again.
     
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  15. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    I'm waiting for the Copernicus heliocentric theory of the universe to come back. I mean, there are definitely still people that believe in the 'crystal bowl' theory of the Heavens, so why not that one. I mean, Copernicus was a very respected scientist.

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/scie...cap-theory-world-is-REALLY-a-dome-topped-disc
     
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  16. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    And the Spanish Inquisition was respected, or feared for at least two reasons. No! Three! If you were a forward thinking individual at the time, keeping certain ideas to yourself was life extending.
    Now days Tide Pods are a thing.

    Tapatalk Via Kyocera
     
  17. Bookworm

    Bookworm Well-Known Member

    Tide Pods have always been a thing. Dolphins are frequently part of them. Helps them catch fish :)
    :angelic007:
     
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  18. brit

    brit in a box

    no one expects the spanish inquisition......
     
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  19. Slipperyjoe

    Slipperyjoe Rusty Metal Tetanus

    Your avatar dude looks like he's been encompassed in some kind of wavy unified field...
     
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  20. DesertTime

    DesertTime Well-Known Member

    The Fifth Element. Maybe those Greeks were on to something.
    Aether was also used to explain gravitation, kinda like dark matter is used today to explain an increasing rate of cosmic expansion.
     
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