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Have you seen the IMAX rover flick? Roving Mars Seizes An Opportunity With Spirit Might go see it at Air & Space this weekend. WAT --------------- How to detect bogus science: 1. claim pitched directly to media 2. discoverer says powerful establishment is suppressing work 3. effects involved are at the limits of detection 4. evidence is anecdotal 5. belief is credible because "it's endured for centuries" 6. discoverer has worked in isolation 7. new laws of nature are proposed to explain discovery
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WAT,
Some of my favs
8. violates the second law of thermodynamics
9. arguments reinforced with volume rather than validity
10. prior art cited, but misunderstood
PS - how have you been? Still fishing?
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Yo - haven't been fishing lately. Son and I going to Fla in late March for our annual spring break visit to my Dad's. Planning a trip to Canada in July - one of those fly into the lake in a float plane gigs. You? WAT -------------- 8. claims that accepted theories violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics, but claimant doesn't undertstand 2nd law wrt open/closed systems <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
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Haven't been in about a year. Live in the mountains now. Grew up fishing Islamorada. Hard to top that in the rivers pulling out trout I used to use for bait fish.
Nice addenda. But one would not expect a well defined system boundary in junk science. So I didn't mention it.
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11. poorly defined, shifting system boundaries
(which would even apply to relational science as a pretty good definition of the behavior of the WS.)
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WAT: No, haven't saw it yet. Some of us were invited 2 a preview, but not yours truly. I've heard good things, though. I have some worries, 2. The 2 Nova episodes about MER were... ...awful, and the 3rd PBS production, "What Went Right", was atrocious. But that's my scientist complaining mostly. It was a narrowly-focused "people movie", about a few of the people involved in building the rovers, and about building the rovers. Very little about the science of going 2 Mars (which, in my humble opinion, was why we built the things in the first place). I had a few cameos in the 2nd Nova show, but at only 40 minutes, I doubt I'm in the Imax flick. Probably a good thing! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Still, I will go see it (whenever it's around, that is). The computer animation stuff I've seen 2 date is first-rate. -ol' 2long
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DS and I are attending opening night at the Omnidome this weekend. Free tickets even.
It's received good reviews around here.
There was a series of articles by the skeptic guy in Scientific American a couple of years ago that listed a whole bunch of junk science tells. Cold fusion was one of the examples he walked through.
I remember spotting 2long in the Nova program. It took a minute to register: Hey, I know that guy from somewhere... and by then he was gone.
Edit: spelling. (Well, I are an engineer. I took special how not to spell correctly classes in college.)
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"Never forget that your pain means nothing to a WS." ~Mulan
"An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. A moral man will not actually do it." ~ Ducky
WS: They are who they are.
When an eel lunges out
And it bites off your snout
Thats a moray ~DS
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Hi Aphelion - yea, the cold fusion gig is a classic (Pons/Fleischman?). Guilty of #1 and especially #3 (maybe #6?).
My XW once claimed to achieve cold fusion in the washing machine after some of my socks got cleaned somehow.
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12. Results cannot be reproduced. (Because other experts don't really know how to do it right.)
Is it possible for you to check if some of my unmatched socks are in your x's washing machine?
This isn't what it sounds to the uninitiated. We are talking wormholes and singularities here. Real science.
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"Never forget that your pain means nothing to a WS." ~Mulan
"An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. A moral man will not actually do it." ~ Ducky
WS: They are who they are.
When an eel lunges out
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Thats a moray ~DS
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Is it possible for you to check if some of my unmatched socks are in your x's washing machine? Sorry - no can do. Don't know what passes as a washing machine on the Mothership. But maybe it could involve REAL fusion....... WAT -------------- Eat, drink, wash, fold
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S'OK, I guess.
As a card carrying geek I still have my license to wear unmatched socks with my pocket protector.
Ed: sheesh, more spelling.
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"Never forget that your pain means nothing to a WS." ~Mulan
"An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. A moral man will not actually do it." ~ Ducky
WS: They are who they are.
When an eel lunges out
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Aphelion-your socks are in a laundry basket at my house. It's chock full of onesies that I cannot (physically cannot) throw away because I'm expecting their mates to appear in my dryer at any moment. If I were to throw them away, that would be the day their buddies decided to take a trip to see their lost loves....if that were to happen you'd have to become a hippie and wear sandles all the time - even in winter.
I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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The solution 2 this problem is simple.
Wear unmatched shoes, and nobody will notice your socks.
-ol' 2long
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Another would be 2 wear your underwear on the outside.
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Another would be 2 wear your underwear on the outside. I'm telling .....
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"Don't know what passes as a washing machine on the Mothership. But maybe it could involve REAL fusion......."
From Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush"
"Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun
Flyin' mother nature's silver seed
To a new home in the sun "
Perhaps the grass is greener on the other side of the sun?
-ol' 2long
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What the sam hill is a bishen cutter, 2long?
"Never forget that your pain means nothing to a WS." ~Mulan
"An ethical man knows it is wrong to cheat on his wife. A moral man will not actually do it." ~ Ducky
WS: They are who they are.
When an eel lunges out
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Another would be 2 wear your underwear on the outside. I gave up underwear as part of Plan B. WAT
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Perhaps the grass is greener on the other side of the sun? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. - Robert McCloskey
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ROTFLMAOSPOOMN!
I didn't make it to plan b. Can I still give up chonies?
I never had to take the Kobayashi Maru test until now. What do you think of my solution?O'hana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. My Story Recovered!
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"I gave up underwear as part of Plan B."
Not me. My "boys" need the support.
...but then, I never did plan B...
-ol' 2long
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