Posted on 08/08/2009 8:43:34 AM PDT by neverdem
Thanks for the neat story about your neopagan sweetie.
If you ever see her again, I have another question for her:
If sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, why do vacuum cleaners make so much noise?
Seriously, I used to teach graduate education courses and went home one night appalled when my students expressed surprise that there are no sounds in outer space because it’s a vacuum out there.
I wonder if any of these ‘scientists’ ever attended a science fair.
http://www.sciencefairadventure.com/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectID=116
My son once boasted to one of his high school teachers that I had invented a new carbon dioxide scrubber for the Space Station. She asked why a carbon dioxide scrubber was needed. My son replied that CO2 builds up in the Station from humans exhaling the gas.
She asked, “Why don’t they just open a window?”
This is not a joke. She was a math teacher.
I don't even need to ask, to tell you what she would say ... the Mother is screaming, due to the sheer unnaturalness of man's cruelty to nature.
Cloud formation has been SHOUTED as a major weakness in the climate models forever. That is not the only one. Nearly all the elements of the GCMs are very far from capability of modeling within 1% their own contribution. Even 1% leads to a chaotic effect that cascades without any assurance the model is close to predictive even 10 years out, to say nothing about 100 years out.
and apparently they don’t take into account things like rainfall either
Thanks for the link.
Gut some critter, and check the entrails.
Its about as accurate as global warming theory
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Water droplets in space have been observed since 1961. It’s known as the Gagarin Effect.
If water existed in space would it be in ice form? But water exists in comets but in ice form. But comets have contained vast amounts of liquid water in their interiors during the first million years of their formation
Then we, in CNY, are experiencing an alien invasion.
I haven’t seen thunderstorms with that much lightning and rain in YEARS, nor have I ever seen them last for HOURS on end like they did last night.
It fit the classic pattern of lake-effect precipitation, though. If this were winter, we would be buried.
Actually, cloud formation has always been poorly understood, but that doesn’t stop scientists from stating their current theory as a fact simply because it’s the best one they have.
Think about the pronunciation of the name of the planet......
My daughter is a physics major and runs into the same sort of thing among the other physics majors. She just cannot believe what some of them DON’T know about physics.
I take it you’re not a South Park fan, lol.
A what?
The TV collects dust until some major disaster happens.
“Mr. Hanky” was a very peculiar character on the somewhat racy cartoon “South Park.”
He was sentient poo.
GAd! She was obviously the last holdout for the theory popular in the 1800s that “rain follows the plough” ~ that is that human activity causes the weather to change ~ well, her and Algore at least.
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