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ScaredAmoeba
Third rock from the sun, best planet in the galaxy.
I'm NOT a college professor, but I have two wonderful house parasites.
Interests: The environment, cycling, photography, boating.
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If it was my bike, I'd consider using a BIG padlock and chain to lock it up, while I decided what to do next.
It would really have helped if he'd registered it and still had the receipt, so that he could prove it was his.
This bike is stolen
I am horrified that McCormick could be allowed to export garbage like the ADE-651. It sullies the name of the UK. I too would like to see him in a cell, just like the one Tony Bliar [sic] and GW Bush should be in, awaiting trial for war-crimes for invading Iraq.
As Good As Dowsing
For once we have some news of rationality winning – although it took a while. Jim McCormick (pictured right), maker of the useless ADE-651 “bomb detection” device, was arrested yesterday in the UK on suspicion of “fraud by misrepresentation.” An export ban on the device will come into force ...
I used to think that Casey Luskin had a purpose.
How wrong I was!
Casey Luskin's Junk Logic
Casey Luskin has a post up on the Disco-Tute’s blog, entitled Nature Paper Shows "Junk-RNA" Going the Same Direction as "Junk-DNA". He’s read a paper in Nature that he thinks shows that junk DNA and junk RNA, may not be junk. This is an interesting point, since junk DNA is often given as evide...
Calling yourself Dr. T and spouting FUD makes me think of the worst insult I have ever typed:
"Fred Singer".
I feel really dirty and disgusted now. I'll have to take a shower.
Fake Experts
In my recent post on global warming denial, I included a list of denier tactics, of which # 3 was “fake experts”. Right on cue, I can report that today is the start of the Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change" – the “world’s largest-ever gathering of global warming s...
There is a big problem with ID - which we must not forget stands for 'Intelligent Design'. There are a number of examples where intelligent design was clearly not involved.
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes compared with the great apes which have 24 pairs. Since loss of a chromosome is very likely to be lethal, the theory was that it was most likely that two chromosomes have fused. Which was indeed what was discovered.
See Ken Miller on Intelligent Design
From 35.00.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVRsWAjvQSg
If an 'intelligent designer' designed this, he/she wasn't particularly smart!
Designed To Confuse
Someone called rbullock posted a classic piece or poor reasoning at The ID Report. It's entitled Darwinists on Design: Jumping to Confusions. Get a load of this and guess where it’s going (no prizes): What if you were lied to all your life that a square was a circle? Oh yes, you were told, it...
Elena,
I am no expert about continents, but I believe I know sufficient to know that the crust thickness is greatest at the continents and thinnest on the ocean floor. What this means is that continents cannot just vanish without trace in ten thousand years [subduction]. If Atlantis was a continent that really existed, it would be fairly obvious, say on Google Earth. If Atlantis were small, then it could have been overlooked, but it would be located on a continental shelf somewhere and probably inundated at the the end of the last ice-age, which would seem to match the myth. However, it would have a submerged coastline, which would show-up on sonar, if the area had been surveyed.
Atlantis Not Found
Much of the media has been abuzz recently with excited reports that the lost city of Atlantis might have been found using ocean in Google Earth. See the picture below of the finding – a grid like image supposedly resembling a city’s roads, covering an area “the size of Wales.” Unfortunately...
Elena,
I don't know what the fact/fantasy ratio for myths is, but it's pretty small. Clearly, not all myths are false, because some have been found to be based-upon fact. But that's a very long way from saying many or all myths are true.
This anomaly is NOT Atlantis. Whether Atlantis ever existed is another matter, but it seems unlikely.
Ocean-floor mapping is likely to reveal many more submerged traces of human habitation. Whether these would be cities is for archaeologists to determine, but presumably, these traces would have to date-back to before the last ice-age when sea-levels were much lower.
Atlantis Not Found
Much of the media has been abuzz recently with excited reports that the lost city of Atlantis might have been found using ocean in Google Earth. See the picture below of the finding – a grid like image supposedly resembling a city’s roads, covering an area “the size of Wales.” Unfortunately...
You omitted:
Faeries; elves; goblins; hob-goblins; orcs; trolls and satyrs!
Midgets too!
Atlantis Not Found
Much of the media has been abuzz recently with excited reports that the lost city of Atlantis might have been found using ocean in Google Earth. See the picture below of the finding – a grid like image supposedly resembling a city’s roads, covering an area “the size of Wales.” Unfortunately...
Note this anomaly lies on the Madeira Abyssal Plain.
This alone should ring alarm bells that it wasn't originally any kind of submerged island. There is no evidence of a shoreline, the area merges seamlessly into the surrounding area. Note how the 'streets' cross the topology - strange for a 'city'.
It's also huge: the Anomaly measures 166 x 131 km!
Pure facts are never enough to dissuade a believer.
Atlantis Not Found
Much of the media has been abuzz recently with excited reports that the lost city of Atlantis might have been found using ocean in Google Earth. See the picture below of the finding – a grid like image supposedly resembling a city’s roads, covering an area “the size of Wales.” Unfortunately...
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