Re: TDD: Test-Driven Design or Test-Driven Development?

From: Robert C. Martin (unclebob_at_objectmentor.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 09:58:50 -0600

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:58:20 GMT, "Shayne Wissler"
<thalesNOSPAM000@yahoo.com> wrote:

>That's the reason why I love this example of certainty in science. It's so
>obvious to any modern human being with even a rudimentary scientific
>background that it can be used as a litmus test to root out the crackpots
>who say things like this (and no, relativity theory does not make that
>claim, only modern pseudo-scientific distortions of relativity theory make
>such claims).

The cardinals in Rome used a different litmus test that was just as
obvious (to them).

>Not that it deserves any reply at all, but it would be interesting to see
>these crackpots figure out the forces that would be put on the sun if it did
>rotate around the earth at the velocities involved. My guess is that it'd be
>ripped apart.

Are you sure? Might it be that the 24 hour Earth centered rotation of
the universe would put just the right gravitational fields in place to
keep the sun in freefall, orbiting around a position that just
happened to be where the Earth was? Think of asteroids orbiting
around a Lagrange point. There's nothing there for them to orbit
around. The gravitational field they are orbiting around is created
by other moving objects much further away.