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Post by Ginnie on May 6, 2010 22:10:04 GMT -4
The moon does have an atmosphere. Not much of one though... And therein lies the problem. This guy sees the term "atmosphere", and makes the comparison to Earth, even though it is 100 trillionth of Earth's. But he's incapable of understanding how different the two really are. Some of us here debated a guy a good few years back on, I believe, a Yahoo forum and he made the mistake of claiming sound waves could travel in space. (No, I cannot for the life of me recall what the genesis of the discussion was). After being called on such a basic mistake, he then spent page after page arguing that space wasn't a "pure" vacuum, but filled with plasma. So sound waves had the media to travel thru. We tried over and over to demonstrate that the number of molecules of plasma in a cubic meter of space was next to nothing, so the sound waves couldn't propagate. But it didn't matter. He had his life preserver, and he clung to it for hundreds of posts. I couldn't bring myself to read or use the word "plasma" for months after that. Anybody recall that discussion? Did you post the correct link?
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Post by tomblvd on May 7, 2010 6:13:15 GMT -4
And therein lies the problem. This guy sees the term "atmosphere", and makes the comparison to Earth, even though it is 100 trillionth of Earth's. But he's incapable of understanding how different the two really are. Some of us here debated a guy a good few years back on, I believe, a Yahoo forum and he made the mistake of claiming sound waves could travel in space. (No, I cannot for the life of me recall what the genesis of the discussion was). After being called on such a basic mistake, he then spent page after page arguing that space wasn't a "pure" vacuum, but filled with plasma. So sound waves had the media to travel thru. We tried over and over to demonstrate that the number of molecules of plasma in a cubic meter of space was next to nothing, so the sound waves couldn't propagate. But it didn't matter. He had his life preserver, and he clung to it for hundreds of posts. I couldn't bring myself to read or use the word "plasma" for months after that. Anybody recall that discussion? Did you post the correct link? Link to what?
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Post by Ginnie on May 7, 2010 8:49:58 GMT -4
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Post by JayUtah on May 7, 2010 9:40:22 GMT -4
Anybody recall that discussion? The Plautus Satire thread?
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Post by tomblvd on May 7, 2010 11:25:50 GMT -4
Anybody recall that discussion? The Plautus Satire thread? BINGO! That thread was up there with some of the early Clyde Lewis threads. Why did I know it would be you to remember Jay?
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Post by tomblvd on May 7, 2010 11:30:19 GMT -4
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Post by tomblvd on May 7, 2010 11:34:04 GMT -4
Anybody recall that discussion? Plautus Satire It's all flooding back to me now. He once spent at least a week on Wikipedia in an edit war over whether "Osama" bin Laden should be spelt "Usama". You just don't see those colorful, psychotic HBs anymore.
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Post by ka9q on May 7, 2010 11:54:44 GMT -4
You just don't see those colorful, psychotic HBs anymore. Oh no? I can cite a few on YouTube who are active at this very minute.
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Post by tomblvd on May 7, 2010 12:20:14 GMT -4
You just don't see those colorful, psychotic HBs anymore. Oh no? I can cite a few on YouTube who are active at this very minute. Heh. I'd say some of them are colorful, and some of them are psychotic, but few of them are both. That takes a unique talent.
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Post by JayUtah on May 7, 2010 12:20:18 GMT -4
You just don't see those colorful, psychotic HBs anymore. I think it was John Keller who showed P. Satire's posts to his wife, who is a clinical psychologist, and he reported that she said there was good evidence of paranoid schizophrenia.
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Post by tomblvd on May 7, 2010 12:39:29 GMT -4
You just don't see those colorful, psychotic HBs anymore. I think it was John Keller who showed P. Satire's posts to his wife, who is a clinical psychologist, and he reported that she said there was good evidence of paranoid schizophrenia. Actually his ex-wife. And you are correct. I was just perusing an old Apollo Hoax thread that was running at the same time as the Yahoo. BTW, Platus is still around, and as charming as ever. (did you know he's a physician AND a lumberjack?) conspiracyscience.com/forums/topic/a-portrait-of-plautus-satireEven the hard-core conspiracy theory sites are getting tired of him.
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Post by gillianren on May 7, 2010 12:44:59 GMT -4
I'm not a clinical psychologist, but there are times when I have my suspicions. Like a certain CT who appeared on BAUT recently.
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Post by laurel on May 7, 2010 13:11:54 GMT -4
The one who talked about Manchurian Candidate pilots?
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Post by gillianren on May 7, 2010 14:19:27 GMT -4
That's the one.
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Post by echnaton on May 7, 2010 15:47:42 GMT -4
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