Comments on: SCIENCE

By: Beege

Beege — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:43:11 +0000

Ok, that makes it a bit more clear. Thanks!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:23:35 +0000

Click on my name for the link.

By: viking gal

viking gal — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:23:14 +0000

I found a Norwegian research article which only traces the amount of Carbon 14 (radioactive form created in the atmosphere) since 1960. The percentage spiked in the 1960s (due to bomb testing), and has declined ever since. However, we all know that the overall carbon concentration in the atmosphere has increased over this same time. So that means that the increase in carbon in the atmosphere has to be coming from non-atmospheric sources (living organisms would have the carbon-14 including variety, since we all breath–and eat carbon-fixing plants). The only non-atmospheric sources would be geologic emissions (like volcanoes) and the burning of fossil fuels.

By: Beege

Beege — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:39:53 +0000

How much more weight was put onto human causes? Your comment provides no scale on how big a problem we are.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:19:11 +0000

It does explain why she is so much more scary than the average sechs therapist!

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:58:59 +0000

I just read her entry on Wikipedia. She was a SNIPER in the Israeli Army. (Then again she was that small she probably couldn’t have been seen ) You just couldn’t make that sort of stuff up could you

By: viking gal

viking gal — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:56:59 +0000

She’s still around. I think she has a website now, and I recall reading that she gave a public talk in Boston this past summer. Not much can keep her down!

By: Mr Spock

Mr Spock — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:49:20 +0000

No.

By: Atalanta

Atalanta — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:26:27 +0000

Chem 102 from first year: they’ve plotted atmospheric CO2 levels they’ve measured, then compared them to production by natural causes and human causes. Neither of the natural nor human plots explains the trend, but put them together (with more weight on the human aspects), and the trends match. So yes, natural flux does have an effect, but not *nearly* the same as what we’re doing.

Humans are the cause of *excessive* global warming. No doubt about it.

By: ella

ella — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:14:51 +0000

explain

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:03:31 +0000

Replace ‘science’ with autism, vaccinations or both, replace the picture with Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, J.B. Handley and Andrew J. Wakefield and we’re all set

By: Dopey

Dopey — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:07:05 +0000

In Soviet Russia, pastry eats you!

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:41:41 +0000

…this is fun…

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:57 +0000

Sorry, that should read $2.

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:22:29 +0000

OK OK, here’s your $10 back. Now please sign this form relinquishing all rights to any future benefits of the research.

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:12:03 +0000

…they will sit on their asses…

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:11:31 +0000

…and when they wait…

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:06:42 +0000

…so, this comment produced a collection of typists who have acknowledged individually they do not know how it will work…only that they will probably need some results/insights from a difficult machine…for some to supplement their livers…which filter toxins from the body and other tasks…which should be failing any second now…and they will have to wait in ques for a replacement…

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:28:51 +0000

And we don’t need to know how to efficiently stack spheres in 23 dimensions.
Oh wait, we use that to make the internet more efficient.

And we don’t need to know how to make numbers which don’t exist (i).
Oh wait, they’re fundamental to modern physics and computer technology.

Just because you don’t know the purpose or don’t directly see it, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have one.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:51:42 +0000

How do you know we don’t need the LHC? Suppose that it leads to the breakthrough in atomic physics that makes room temperature fusion on the “Back to the Future” scale (reactor small enough to run your car on) possible? Won’t that solve a lot of problems with fossil fuels and CO2 emissions?

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:51:06 +0000

That’s illogical, Captain..

By: keithybabes

keithybabes — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:49:04 +0000

I reckon it’s worth a few bob to help unravel the mystery of the universe.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:47:30 +0000

When are you going to take action on the real causes of Climate Change, you know things like continental drift and global vulcanism?

By: talus

talus — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:43:44 +0000

Problem is we DON’T NEED a large hadron colider
It is a huge ass multi million dollar paper maiche volcano
currently it doesn’t have any practical applications
also ther amount of power needed to run it for about twenty minutes could run chicago for like a week.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:23:25 +0000

Climate change.
So many idiots were thinking that global warming meant everywhere just got warmer and whats wrong with that? that they use climate change to help reinforce the idea that some places, such as the UK could actually get a lot colder and wetter.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:26:53 +0000

You win a lifetime supply of internets for that.

My co-workers are looking at me funny because I’ve been doing LOL for several minutes now!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:23:24 +0000

JAC is correct as far as the original idea behind the “Chain Home” Radio Direction Finding, German “Giant Wurzburg” and similar systems were correct.

The modern microwave oven is also a development of the cavity microtron, which was developed for the Aliies short-wave (10cm or less) radar systems (2-stage Merlin Mosquito nightfighters, Lightning M, P-61 Black Widow, H2-S terrain radar), whilst the Germans were still using 33cm or so, hence the arrays of huge dipole antennae on their night fighters.

By: AnotherSwedeImAfraid

AnotherSwedeImAfraid — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:17:07 +0000

Now Im positive I lost an electron around here somewhere…

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:11:23 +0000

Actually as far as I heard the story it goes – When doing experiments on Radar a scientist (based in Britain) found that there were dead birds round the base of the Radar dishes. After inspections they discovered that the birds were actually cooked from the inside. After the war it was discovered that the cause of the deaths were actually down to the part that emitted the radar signals. This was eventually built into the first Microwave.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:28:43 +0000

Ah!! I remember COBOL. The reason it died out is because it was so bloody easy to make a complete arse out of a program just for the need of a comma or a full stop. I once did a program which had over 120 errors. Found out that a full stop was missing, put it back in and then recompiled it and cleared up over 80 of the errors. I also remember Fortran. Didn’t one of the old 8bit machines use Fortran as a programming language?? (I’ve got a funny feeling it was the Jupiter Ace or am I wrong???)

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:10:57 +0000

I’ve always found that a sharp pointy stick usually does the job better than science ever would

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:52:00 +0000

The problem with Flux Capacitors is that they strobe. No sooner is it Flux On, then it’s Flux Off.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:48:50 +0000

Hey!! We put that comment through a Vacuous cleaner I’ll have you know

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:47:22 +0000

Actually nothing will happen in 2012. It’s merely the similar sort of predictions that the Aztecs had every 52 years when they carried out their “New Fire Ceremony” (Look it up on the Interweb) and they thought that if it wasn’t carried out then the world would destroy itself. Well everyone is still here. Same thing with the Mayan Calendar. It’s reaching the end of their age so everyone thinks that “Oooh. This means the end of the world”, when all it means is that one year will close on 31st December 2012 and a new one will begin on 1st January. Just like every other year.

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:25:10 +0000

And I remember “Ask Dr Ruth”. What happened to the old Dwarf Doctor??

By: Vila Restal

Vila Restal — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:22:44 +0000

Actually it’s more like

Complete Bonkers Theory -> No Evidence Whatsoever -> Wikipedia -> “Truth”

By: Default User

Default User — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:28:04 +0000

Well you se- Wait. What? Do you know how your liver works? Doesn’t matter if you do or not really, you still need it. Or maybe your car? Might not need it to live, but I doubt you’d give it up. Understanding how something works doesn’t mean you don’t need it.

By: Lllll.

Lllll. — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:07:54 +0000

…if you understand how it works then why do you need it?…

By: Default User

Default User — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:07:29 +0000

See?! See!? Brak’s right! No one understands you!

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:48:02 +0000

Stick to the rhyming nests, brak — your reading comprehension skills are failing you.

By: Brak the Zappaist

Brak the Zappaist — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:06:49 +0000

Oh my god…this is too funny. Dhoti sez..”Nobody understands me!!” Can I get a WWWAAAHHHHH!!!

By: Brak the Zappaist

Brak the Zappaist — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:04:18 +0000

OK.

By: Maxwell Supreme Socialist Presidictator of PK

Maxwell Supreme Socialist Presidictator of PK — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:11:10 +0000

It…. miiiiight be.

By: charro

charro — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:56:26 +0000

I’m staying neutron in this one.

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:21:30 +0000

“He knows MORE than you do!” Yes. Kinda funny, if I recall.

By: DW

DW — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:31:49 +0000

Well, that puts the kibosh on the Global Warming debate.

By: Rando the Conqueror

Rando the Conqueror — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:04:28 +0000

(Damn these margaritas are good.)
Wait…what?

By: Default User

Default User — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:53:34 +0000

Oh! You want to talk! *sits down with coffee mugs and begins speaking at an incredibly high speed* SOhowhaveyoubeen? I’lltellyouhowI’vebeen. Justawful. Thanksgivingisanightmare,themotherinlawdoesn’tlikemycooking, theniecesandnephewsarerunningamuk. Theturkeyisn’tdefrosting, thecranberrysauceisasolidlump, thecathasgonemissing, I’msoooonotpreparedforblackfridayshopping…
*goes on like this for several hours* Sooo…What do you think?

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:42:55 +0000

Just because a system is currently stable doesn’t mean it’s always been that way.

By: Dhoti

Dhoti — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:21:58 +0000

Because you don’t understand, of course, nobody else does, either. Typical.

Still, I’m amused beyond words that you actually think you’re funny, and that any of this is making you look good. Not to mention that, for multiple days now, you’ve had nothing better to do than let me lead you around like a puppet.