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Surfpunk posted the Link where it said that a slinky was a spring and it you look the page is paid for by the Nasa Ad department, I mean wtf does Nasa have anything to do with whether or not a slinky is a spring - apparently a lot, I'm not even sure i can find the exact link but it was in that thread were we were discussing that, but it points out exactly what i've been saying.
so since surfpunk posted something that means that i am blindly believing in it based on that source and that source only?
are you starting to see the problem? your faulty memory and assumptions pile up into some really strange conclusions. I didn't need any source at all to tell me that a slinky is a spring other than the Webster's dictionary. Its shape and behavior with respect to tension match that description perfectly.
the sad thing is that a slinky's internal tension neither proves nor disproves gravity nor any competing theories for why things fall. as i said repeatedly. admitting a slinky is a spring loses you nothing and gains me nothing. you're only doubling down because you're....well.... you. Let me state it clearly:
Regardless of gravity or some other force being the reason things fall down, regardless of your subjective definition of a spring, the reason the bottom wont fall until the top catches it is due to internal pressure. U can call this a spring, u can say the top falls because of density or w/e. it neither proves or disproves anything.
but the problem is obvious, you posted that slo mo video to "prove something", so if u admit what i said above you need to prove your assertion with something else. much easier to triple down and fight about whether something is a spring for 3 months....
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as to are all rectangles squares: So a square is a special kind of rectangle, where all the sides have the same length so every square is a rectangle, but not every rectangle is a square.
and not all spring can lift a garage door. NOW do u get the reason i posted that?
This post was edited by thesnipa on May 3 2017 02:14pm