Is there a china teapot revolving around the Sun in an elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars?

The teapot is too small to be seem by the most powerful of telescopes.


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14 Responses to “Is there a china teapot revolving around the Sun in an elliptical orbit between Earth and Mars?”

  • Red White and Ooze:

    maybe, we don’t really know what the astronauts do up there

  • Bill Doughtreve:

    No its British

  • Mythical Tales:

    Oh I love it! The God Delusion was a great book ;)

    Well no one can be certain now can they?!

  • Chester:

    no—it’s a pressure cooker

  • ジェイク:

    I have no idea, but I watched something about that on national Geographic.

  • Daddyskaggs:

    So posited Bertrand Russell

  • MacG:

    You clearly have no idea how easy it is to put such an object into such an orbit. Also, you are not clever, this is both an old example and a logical fallacy.

  • Dawn G:

    If I say that there is, can you prove me wrong?

  • Bob:

    Metaphorically, yes. That’s basically atheist’s explanation on why people believe in god. Just imagine the teapot as this so called "god".

  • sunestauromai (συνεσταύρωμαι):

    Hehe… ALL orbits are elliptical. "Circular" orbits, our moon almost has one, are just special cases where the axises are equal.

    In actuality, there are millions of tiny objects orbiting planets, stars, or other objects of sufficient size to attract them. While there may be man made objects with an orbit as you describe, I doubt that a china tea service is among them.

    Because of orbital mechanics, it would be virtually impossible to achieve that orbit in a device without rockets to adjust its position – If the object left the earth without the ability to alter its course in such a way that it began to orbit the sun, that orbit will, by definition, overlap earth’s orbit, resulting in a very high potential that it would be pulled into earth’s atmosphere on some future orbit and crash or burn up.

  • Norman0361:

    Scientists are not certain yet that the orbit is elliptical as the gravitational fields of the Earth and Mars tend to have an inexplicably large effect on the teapot. I believe we’re launching a probe in 2012 to gather more data.

  • jtrusnik:

    Not only is there a teapot, but I’m going to be pushing to legislate teapoterian cosmology in our science classes. I’d like to build a teapoterian coalition, but first I’d need to ferret out those heretics who don’t agree with me on the color of the teapot’s patterns.

  • mike necro:

    yes and it is filled with earl grey tea.

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