BTW, the following remains my all time favorite Really Stupid Topic, and the zotted Truth666 is at least in the running for one of the most ignorant [characterization omitted] ever to FReep. He’s actually claiming here that Toutatis doesn’t exist, and that Comet Bradfield had a diameter of 10,000 km (the Earth’s diameter is a bit over 12,000):
Huge asteroid to fly past Earth (Toutatis hoax - how and why)
space.com | 04/09/29
Posted on 9/29/2004, 8:00:09 AM by Truth666
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1230167/posts
another example:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1128284/posts?page=10#10
You have a LONG memory for guys who irritated you, SunkenCiv!
I just realized that I signed up at Free Republic only a few weeks after you did, in 2004.
I always assumed that you were a FR lifer from the 1990s.
I discovered FR on election night in 2000, when the razor thin Florida election locked up Bush-Gore for several weeks.
At some point after that I either forgot my screen name or my password or both, and I had start over again in 2004.
Quite surprisingly, blam has almost 2X times as many threads as you do. I never would have guessed that.
However, it looks like you are #1 in Comments, which I would not have guessed, either.
Your closest competition for Comments is 227,000 from luvie, with whom I am not familiar.