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anglagard
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Message 106 of 603 (732619)
07-09-2014 2:11 AM
Reply to: Message 99 by Dr Adequate
07-07-2014 7:06 PM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
The already tremendous and exponential disparity of wealth has become an increasing topic of conversation among the electorate in the United States.
Apparently, the increasing and exponential convergence of knowledge and intelligence levels between elected representatives and common pets and barnyard animals should also be an increasing topic of conversation.
Edited by anglagard, : Failed to include the Gibbons, who obviously are already contenders.
Edited by anglagard, : wrote the excuse, forgot the edit
Edited by anglagard, : Had to change the whole tone

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon

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NoNukes
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Message 107 of 603 (732622)
07-09-2014 3:58 AM
Reply to: Message 99 by Dr Adequate
07-07-2014 7:06 PM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here.
Lol! Not even the stupidest comment on that site.
I think the senator would have been better off using Venus in his example. Thusly:
"We all agree that the temperature of Venus is high enough to melt lead. Yet there are no coal mines or factories on Venus. So how come we get the blame here?"

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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granpa
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Message 108 of 603 (732628)
07-09-2014 5:29 AM
Reply to: Message 103 by RAZD
07-08-2014 7:46 PM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
He was obviously being sarcastic.
His point evidently being that without carbon dioxide earth could conceivably end up like Mars.

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Coragyps
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Message 109 of 603 (732631)
07-09-2014 7:52 AM
Reply to: Message 108 by granpa
07-09-2014 5:29 AM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
Well, except that Mars's atmosphere is 96% carbon dioxide, and the greenhouse effect is what keeps the temperature there as high as it is. "Obviously" is certainly overstating the case.

"The Christian church, in its attitude toward science, shows the mind of a more or less enlightened man of the Thirteenth Century. It no longer believes that the earth is flat, but it is still convinced that prayer can cure after medicine fails." H L Mencken

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jar
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Message 110 of 603 (732633)
07-09-2014 8:04 AM
Reply to: Message 108 by granpa
07-09-2014 5:29 AM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
He was showing his total stupidity or conning the connable. My hope is that it is just the latter.
If global warming is a current fact then the issue is "Where could we as humans make changes?" The fact is, the only part of the warming trend we have any real hope of effecting are those parts we create.
The only things we can change are the man made contributions.
Edited by jar, : there is no 0 in showing

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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1.61803
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Message 111 of 603 (732647)
07-09-2014 10:36 AM
Reply to: Message 107 by NoNukes
07-09-2014 3:58 AM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
Don't forget that the threat of manmade global warming doesn't make any sense because CO2 is a natural byproduct on Earth.
This according to Michelle Bachman.

"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs

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Dr Adequate
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Message 112 of 603 (732667)
07-09-2014 2:58 PM
Reply to: Message 108 by granpa
07-09-2014 5:29 AM


Re: At Last Something We Can All Agree On
No.

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RAZD
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Message 113 of 603 (732686)
07-09-2014 10:07 PM


always a favorite
Batshit as ever

we are limited in our ability to understand
by our ability to understand
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Theodoric
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Message 114 of 603 (732687)
07-09-2014 10:34 PM
Reply to: Message 113 by RAZD
07-09-2014 10:07 PM


Re: always a favorite
You sure that is real? I cannot find an original reference.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.

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Minnemooseus
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Message 115 of 603 (732688)
07-09-2014 10:44 PM
Reply to: Message 113 by RAZD
07-09-2014 10:07 PM


Another Bachmann Fake
Just like this one.
Same little "whatever it is" in the upper-right corner.
Moose

Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"Yesterday on Fox News, commentator Glenn Beck said that he believes President Obama is a racist. To be fair, every time you watch Glenn Beck, it does get a little easier to hate white people." - Conan O'Brien
"I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose

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ramoss
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Message 116 of 603 (732689)
07-09-2014 11:12 PM
Reply to: Message 115 by Minnemooseus
07-09-2014 10:44 PM


Re: Another Bachmann Fake
On the other hand, this is real

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Dr Adequate
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Message 117 of 603 (732693)
07-10-2014 12:24 AM
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07-09-2014 11:12 PM


Re: Another Bachmann Fake
Bachmann is old news. For true connoisseurs of crazy, the man to watch now is Gordon Klingenschmitt.

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ringo
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Message 118 of 603 (732725)
07-10-2014 11:59 AM
Reply to: Message 113 by RAZD
07-09-2014 10:07 PM


Re: always a favorite
quote:
"We want our democracy to be based on Christianity. Any other religion would make it a theocracy."
Well, Christianity isn't "a" religion; it's "the" religion. All others are just branches of the same false religion.

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Dr Adequate
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Message 119 of 603 (733775)
07-21-2014 6:58 AM


David Graham, TurboGenPower
This weeks loony is David Graham, sole proprietor/loon of TurboGenPower, and a magnificent example of what happens if you combine arrogance with ignorance. He has invented a perpetual motion machine, but heck, haven't we all? Mine runs off the energy liberated when you square a circle.
No, what makes this guy special is his take on the history of science ...
Recently some idiots by the name of Kevin and Plank thought that they could become famous scientists by formulation such a statement. These idiots have found their way into thermal dynamics text books. Here is the NEW BULL SHIT SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS by Kelvin-Plank * Kelvin-Plank statements :
"It is impossible to construct a device which operates in a cycle and produce no other effects than the production of work and exchange of heat with a single reservoir . " Here is the web reference. http://202.113.227.136/...amics/HeatPPT-English/Chapter7.ppt.
In all my thermodynamics texts I cannot find a Kelvin-Plank statement.
Well, so much for those newcomers to the scientific scene Kelvin and Planck. As for that raw parvenu Clausius ...
The Clausius statements of the second law is another Classic Idiot and product of our 2 1 Century Scientific Education. * Clausius statements :
"It is impossible to construct a device which operates in a cycle and whose sole effect is to transfer heat from a cooler body to a hotter body."
Your local refrigeration man even knows better than this. He will sell you a device which will take heat out of the cold outdoors and transfer it into your warm house. It is called a HEAT PUMP, and is used in many homes in America and has been perfected for about 100 years.
Peer review is also apparently a recent invention:
I began to wonder what would have happened to Eienstein's paper's in 1905. If in 1905 there was peer review, none of Einstein's papers would have been published. No one understood him. Einstein's two famous papers would have fallen into the dust bin of history. An interesting historical observation.
Peer review has truly caused modern science to fall into the depths of depravity and cease to serve Mankind.
Apparently in Einstein's day physics journals would publish anything if you asked nicely enough. Truly 'twas a golden age.
He is also notable for his proof that global warming won't cause the sea level to rise.

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herebedragons
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Message 120 of 603 (733778)
07-21-2014 7:45 AM
Reply to: Message 119 by Dr Adequate
07-21-2014 6:58 AM


Re: David Graham, TurboGenPower
How do you come across this stuff????
I got a kick out of the statement before the quote you cited "Recently some idiots by the name of Kevin and Plank... " (Wait, who is Kevin?)
quote:
If fact, you can take a window air-conditioning unit outside and it will produce cool air on one side and hot air on the other side, both from one temperature source, ambient air.
I am not sure he knows that air conditioners need to be plugged in.
HBD

Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.

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