Even NASA knows. Or Esp NASA knows.

[Monte Davis]

Damn you, Paul -- now I'll forever think of GR as a conic book.

On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> He was conicked into deplane
>
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Richard Romeo <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > So why is Gottfried in that rocket again? 😀
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Apr 28, 2018, at 9:58 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes. Every time through GR, I find more variant riffs on the conic
> > sections
> > > (point, line, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) and a thousand
> kinds
> > of
> > > literal and metaphoric "movement." More often than not, cyclic
> > progressions
> > > -- the circle that the rainbow would be if it were not cut off by the
> > > horizon, Saturn's ever-so-slightly-elliptical rings -- are good.
> > >
> > > Interrupted ones -- the parabolic rocket trajectory which yearns to be
> an
> > > orbit or escape, but runs into a target first -- not so much.
> > >
> > >> On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 3:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia22418/gravity-s-rainbow
> > >> --
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> > >>
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