Astronomy cast

I was listening to astronomy cast yesterday and they where doing a show
about how to be taken seriously by scientist.
And I quote Dr. Pamela L. Gay , if you a nut and what me to do all your work
(calculation, write papers) for you and for free.
Don't bother sending it to me. I did not ask for it.

This had me thinking about all the crack pots running around the internet.
Are most of these people real or is it someone just
having a laugh at us.
I mean the dude with the skull found in the coal, or the fossils on mars
dude, bad science, is bad science.......

anyway I'm going to take some Prozac and lay down now..

Mark




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There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

On Sep 6, 1:02*am, "Mark F." wrote:
I was listening to astronomy cast yesterday and they where doing a show
about how to be taken seriously by scientist.
And I quote Dr. Pamela L. Gay , if you a nut and what me to do all your work
(calculation, write papers) for you and for free.
Don't bother sending it to me. I did not ask for it.

This had me thinking about all the crack pots running around the internet..
Are most of these people real or is it someone just
having a laugh at us.
I mean the dude with the skull found in the coal, or the fossils on mars
dude, bad science, is bad science.......

anyway I'm going to take some Prozac and lay down now..

Mark

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There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

A long time ago (maybe even in a galaxy far far away) you could make a
USENET post and within a few minutes get a correct answer to your
question. Unfortunately Al Gore created the Internet as we now know
it. Translated that means that anybody who has enough active brain
cells to get to a public library can spread their drool and raise
noise level to the point where the Internet is nearly useless. The
Internet is now populated by the likes of Ed, Fossil, Nancy, Daniel,
Brad, AJ, Peter, Marvin, Gerald and a host of other people who never
got beyond third grade. Although I still use the "Internet" to read
USENET news, most of the work I do is done on Internet/2 which does
not allow morons. A newer Sun Workstation with a 10gE connection to
Internet/2 helps immensely

"yourmommycalled" wrote in message
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On Sep 6, 1:02 am, "Mark F." wrote:
I was listening to astronomy cast yesterday and they where doing a show
about how to be taken seriously by scientist.
And I quote Dr. Pamela L. Gay , if you a nut and what me to do all your
work
(calculation, write papers) for you and for free.
Don't bother sending it to me. I did not ask for it.

This had me thinking about all the crack pots running around the internet.
Are most of these people real or is it someone just
having a laugh at us.
I mean the dude with the skull found in the coal, or the fossils on mars
dude, bad science, is bad science.......

anyway I'm going to take some Prozac and lay down now..

Mark

--

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

A long time ago (maybe even in a galaxy far far away) you could make a
USENET post and within a few minutes get a correct answer to your
question. Unfortunately Al Gore created the Internet as we now know
it. Translated that means that anybody who has enough active brain
cells to get to a public library can spread their drool and raise
noise level to the point where the Internet is nearly useless. The
Internet is now populated by the likes of Ed, Fossil, Nancy, Daniel,
Brad, AJ, Peter, Marvin, Gerald and a host of other people who never
got beyond third grade. Although I still use the "Internet" to read
USENET news, most of the work I do is done on Internet/2 which does
not allow morons. A newer Sun Workstation with a 10gE connection to
Internet/2 helps immensely

I listened to that podcast a couple of weeks ago, and want to add to what
MarkF said, as I think he inadvertantly left it out, and mommy is probably
aware of it. Dr. Gay also said in that same podcast that having brains and
advanced education does NOT preclude someone from being a nutter. Lots of
Ph.D.s who are cranks. Nut is nuts, IOW.

On Sep 6, 3:23*pm, yourmommycalled wrote:
On Sep 6, 1:02*am, "Mark F." wrote:





I was listening to astronomy cast yesterday and they where doing a show
about how to be taken seriously by scientist.
And I quote Dr. Pamela L. Gay , if you a nut and what me to do all your work
(calculation, write papers) for you and for free.
Don't bother sending it to me. I did not ask for it.

This had me thinking about all the crack pots running around the internet.
Are most of these people real or is it someone just
having a laugh at us.
I mean the dude with the skull found in the coal, or the fossils on mars
dude, bad science, is bad science.......

anyway I'm going to take some Prozac and lay down now..

Mark

--

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.

A long time ago (maybe even in a galaxy far far away) you could make a
USENET post and within a few minutes get a correct answer to your
question. Unfortunately Al Gore created the Internet as we now know
it. Translated that means that anybody who has enough active brain
cells to get to a public library can spread their drool and raise
noise level to the point where the Internet is nearly useless. The
Internet is now populated by the likes of Ed, Fossil, Nancy, Daniel,
Brad, AJ, Peter, Marvin, Gerald and a host of other people who never
got beyond third grade. Although I still use the "Internet" to read
USENET news, most of the work I do is done on Internet/2 which does
not allow morons. A newer Sun Workstation with a 10gE connection to
Internet/2 helps immensely- Hide quoted text -

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You can't hold a discussion for any longer than two posts but you are
not alone in this respect and the only greater injustice than being
lumped in with some of guys you mention would be to linked to the
empiricist cult with its experiment/predictions mantra.

Other than magnify objects without putting anything into astronomical
context,there is nothing in your posts to indicate that you are an
astronomer.All people are astronomers by virtue that their bodies
respond to the great planetary dynamics and the cycles they
particpate in,but few know how to interpret what those cycles are and
if you think I am a madman for believing the Earth rotates once in 24
hours then I will remain in that state while you stick with the
'sanity' of the alternative value as is common to empiricists.

Morons there are plenty of,as far as I am concerned they are people
who are already dead to self respect and all the genuine good human
traits,it is astronomers that this world desperately needs and it
still may be possible to find some among this dismal and mean spirited
bunch here,none so far,but there must be some who truly believe that
astronomy was never meant to be so dull as you creatures make it out
to be.

mommycalled indeed !,most of you never left a college atmosphere hence
you are lost in astronomical matters where an adventurous spirit is
needed allied with the presence of the astronomical authority and
heritage which stretches back to antiquity.

On Sep 6, 4:23*pm, yourmommycalled wrote:

Although I still use the "Internet" to read USENET news, most of the
work I do is done on Internet/2 which does not allow morons.
A newer Sun Workstation with a 10gE connection to
Internet/2 helps immensely

Internet/2 suggests it is only half the Internet which Internet/1
is. ;-)

However, if this is the good half then less is (very definitely)
Moore. :-)

"Chris.B" wrote:

On Sep 6, 4:23*pm, yourmommycalled wrote:

Although I still use the "Internet" to read USENET news, most of the
work I do is done on Internet/2 which does not allow morons.
A newer Sun Workstation with a 10gE connection to
Internet/2 helps immensely

Internet/2 suggests it is only half the Internet which Internet/1
is. ;-)

However, if this is the good half then less is (very definitely)
Moore. :-)

Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Sturgeon.

Sturgeon's Law says that what we really want is Internet/10. Maxwell's
Demon says we'll need Internet/100, then Internet/1,000 and so forth.
Iterate that process ten times and we end up talking only to
ourselves--and Sturgeon's Law would /still/ apply.

Boltzmann agrees. No matter what you do, the bottom end of the
distribution remains firmly anchored at zero.
--
Dave

On Sep 6, 8:55*pm, Dave Typinski wrote:

Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Sturgeon.

Sturgeon's Law says that what we really want is Internet/10. Maxwell's
Demon says we'll need Internet/100, then Internet/1,000 and so forth.
Iterate that process ten times and we end up talking only to
ourselves--and Sturgeon's Law would /still/ apply.

Boltzmann agrees. *No matter what you do, the bottom end of the
distribution remains firmly anchored at zero.
--
Dave

There is an interesting parallel here between the OP's condemnation of
the babbling classes (or "gas bags" of the Internet) and your piece on
those who struggled with the science of gasses.

I really must polish my humour further to avoid being classed with the
former. Particularly, since I have such a vanishingly small chance of
ever being mistaken for the latter.

Demon, let me pass and I'll refold your lost entropy in spice of
everything! :-)

On Sep 6, 10:58*am, "Chris.B" wrote:
On Sep 6, 4:23*pm, yourmommycalled wrote:

Although I still use the "Internet" to read USENET news, most of the
work *I do is done on Internet/2 which does not allow morons.
A newer Sun Workstation with a 10gE connection to
Internet/2 helps immensely

Internet/2 suggests it is only half the Internet which Internet/1
is. ;-)

However, if this is the good half then less is (very definitely)
Moore. :-)

Actually Internet/2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium
comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70
leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other
institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international
partner organizations. One of the nice things about Internet/2 is that
you get 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard and NO SPAM, wingnuts or gasbags.
Think of uploading a multi gigabyte files in a few seconds.

On Sep 7, 5:17*am, yourmommycalled wrote:

Actually Internet/2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium
comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70
leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other
institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international
partner organizations. One of the nice things about Internet/2 is that
you get 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard and NO SPAM, wingnuts or gasbags.
Think of uploading a multi gigabyte files in a few seconds.

Does anyone think the Internet can be fixed before it breaks down
under the ever expanding load of garbage? We can't limit the freedom
of speech without risking the lives of the whistle blowers living
under evil regimes. Registration of users is ruled out for similar
reasons. The present Chinese spam showing up on Usenet is only the
first signs of cracking in a vast dam. We are compelled to have a
driving license, tax and insurance on our cars before we drive on the
road. If botnets are the drivers of spam and the result of using
undefended computers then why not make firewalls, spam filters and
antivirus programmes compulsory before a computer is allowed on the
internet? Surely it wouldn't be difficult to have a computer
interrogated for proof of protection before it joins the traffic? This
won't filter out the abUsenet lunatics of course.

Chris.B:
If botnets are the drivers of spam and the result of using
undefended computers then why not make firewalls, spam filters and
antivirus programmes compulsory before a computer is allowed on the
internet?

Or, get a Mac.

Davoud

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I agree with everything that you have said and everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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