I assume your comment about dealing with mistakes applies first and foremost to the worst mistake (Thork's) in the thread.
No, it doesn't. Thork hasn't made a mistake, he's simply fundamentally wrong about things. You, on the other hand, I suspect were fully aware of Newton's law of universal gravitation, but merely forgot to apply it in this situation, having assumed that 400km wouldn't be enough to make a significant difference. It's a much less serious issue, except for the fact that your continuous dodging and denying of it makes it more serious - there is a difference between making a mistake (and owning up once pointed out), being completely wrong (Thork's case), and being intellectually dishonest (what you've escalated your own case to). Own up, admit a mistake, move on. Simple.
Finally, I'd appreciate if in your signature you correctly quote me. I, as any grade school student should do, specified the direction of the vector involved, here: toward the center of the Earth. Thanks again.
Unfortunately, sigs have limited lengths, and I made sure to include the direction as part of the context. Of course, since the question was about the
value (magnitude) of the acceleration, it is inappropriate and needless to specify the direction - magnitudes themselves do not have directions. I'd be happy to include this in my sig to make you look even worse, but, as I said, we limit sigs at 300 characters.
Thank you. That's what we needed to know. I'll be sure to encourage noobs to read this post and ignore this and any other alts we detect.
You may want to acknowledge 2 things:
- Jokes exist, and sometimes people make them. (This is something I recall you failing at on numerous occasions, and it really doesn't help your arguments)
- While there are many people who could easily be accused of being one another's alts, junkers and my identities are transparent enough for this to be highly unlikely.
Ultimately, if you suspect that someone is using alts for sockpuppetting, you should report it in S&C. While having alts is not disallowed here,
using them in attempt to benefit oneself in a conversation is.