Posted on 03/06/2005 11:09:03 PM PST by bd476
LOL, wait until you read the following:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1357528/posts?page=69#69
Space mark.
Well, this is true. But on the wrapper I have in my currently nicotine stained fingers, Starbursts are energy quakes.
And sweet too.
Pretty soon some crackpot is going to tell us that solar flares cause the Northern Lights or that the continents can move!
For those skeptics out there, the article did not say they had "proved" star eruptions caused earthquakes. The said there was a correlation. Of course correlation is not enough. Strong and frequent correlation is required. Sure there were people who farted before the earthquake, but there are billions of farts that were not followed by quakes (other than in the same room!). These guys are proposing an hypothesis (NOT a theory). The job of science is to determine if the hypothesis is correct. It often takes quite a while.
Remember when people laughed at Dick Tracy's wrist radio? Did you ever see a picture of the first transistor? If a picture of something like that were published today, those guys would be laughed off the planet. The computer you are typing on right probably has over 50 million of them.
Science would get nowhere without people with the guts to propose that which is unusual and open it to examination by competent people. Thankfully they don't mind being laughed at. They laughed at Wegener (or despised him). http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html
Now THEY just look stupid.
Laughter often preceeds success. I'm sure we would have laughed loud and long at a newsman (even Dan Rather) who told us a loony in a cave could bring down the WTC.
That is a well written post making some excellent points.
That makes sense, SubMareener.
Excellent link. I'm bookmarking it right now as a good reference. Thank you!
No, no, no. It's line dancing, usually in Texas.
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Please add me to your ping list...two of my sons are very interested in earth science...we look for info like this!!! Thanks a bunch, PaMom
Wow. That is soooooooo retarded. :)
Hey P, thought you might like to, ahem, see this.
India Daily is an utterly and completely worthless source run by kooks that basically just randomly makes stuff up.
This is the same source that talked about secret underground UFO bases in the Himalayas.
Notice they didn't actually cite any sources; they just sort of vaguely hinted they were reporting the research of (non-existent, btw) scientists.
People have really got to stop posting India Daily nonsense, and taking it seriously.
My opinion on this may not sound scientific, however, I think it fits this article to a tee. One word says it all:
Flapdoodle!
(or you could use the word codswallop as well LOL)
Nope. Gravity waves do not travel faster than the speed of light.
http://www.ldolphin.org/vanFlandern/gravityspeed.html
This page will give those who are curious (like myself) a very good explanation why you replied "flapdoodle" to the article.
Uh oh.
Got a link to a paper on this?
*sigh* I'm doing my part to prevent earthquakes...
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