? Who placed Phobos in a decaying orbit towards 1/Pi in earth time, only seconds away when I speak?
Is this the way you explain in your own words why I am dishonest?
Try again
Options (one or may may apply):
- Luck of the draw
- Law of large numbers
- Data mining
- Confirmation bias
- Anomaly hunting
- Argument from final consequences
- Correlation is not causation
- Ad-hoc reasoning
First, There are 175 natural satellites in the solar system. That's a good pool to draw from.
Second, when doing computations on orbital periods you have the option to use units of time based on Earth (number of hours in a day, number of days in a year) or units of time based on the planet the satellite orbits (number of hours in the planet's day, number of Earth days in the planet's orbit about the sun, number of planet's days in the planet's orbit about the sun, or even the number of planet's days in the Earth's orbit about the sun.) Add in sidereal vs solar days and you've just doubled the amount of numbers you can play with.
Third, you feel free to use any basic arithmetic operation that strikes your fancy: addition, subtraction, division, or multiplication. Now you've quadrupled the amount of numbers you can play with.
Fourth, you have a host of constants to draw on, your favourite being
pi, but there are others such as
c,
e, and
phi; or the Golden Mean which you talked about a lot earlier on.
Throw into a barrel, mix and match, and you're sure to find some interesting stuff. But one interesting thing does not a pattern make. And a bunch of unrelated interesting things still does not a pattern make.
