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originally posted by: purplemer
a reply to: putnam6
The rebirth of Osiris the king.. Soon peeps will know why the ancients worshiped the stars.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
a reply to: putnam6
Oh, we'll have an excellent seat when Betelgeuse blows, whenever that happens, or rather whenever we finally see it from 640-odd years away. I love looking up at the stars and realising that we're all looking back in time whenever we do that.
By the way, IIRC we don't need to worry too much about Yellowstone, as the magma chamber seems to be crystallising in places, meaning that parts are cooling. No, it's the next caldera forming event that we really have to worry about, North-East of where the current caldera is. That hot spot moving, or rather North America is travelling over the hot spot. But I digress.
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: Arbitrageur
I believe that the OP was correct on the post about heavy elements but did not explain what was actually meant.
Elements heavier than iron are not formed by geological processes but need more neutrons than are found in supernovae. The speculation was that neutron stars could produce heavier elements if they merged. Until a few years ago it was just an idea.
And yes, the gravitational waves do not travel faster than light but that part happens prior to EM burst of the nova. That is why they were watching that area of space. When it looked like a merger was imminent they pointed a telescope in the direction. When the kilanova was confirmed by both gravity and EM radiation then other telescopes were pointed. That is where the radio telescopes confirmed the spectral line for strontium (??) and validated that neutron mass elements over a certain size were created in neutron star mergers.
Those elements drift around, get picked up by comets and what not, then fall into gravity wells as planets are formed. That is where the heavier elements are formed. They are “natural” on the planet but come from space.
Nuclear synthesis is the term (I think). And there is some debate about even the source of copper which is also natural to the environment!
Here’s to hoping that one lifetime is enough of a wait for the fireworks!
I can't say anything about #1, but I've heard 2, 3, and 4 spout copious amounts of completely incorrect crap, so if that's what you want to hear, by all means check them out. It's possible they may even say something correct once in a while, but usually, it's nothing but pseudoscientific BS.
originally posted by: 2Faced
I think this quartet links will surely intrigue you. I find that they all compliment and confirm eachothers claims
1. Diehold foundation, Douglas B.Vogt - ice age series YT -
2. Suspicious observers, Ben Davidson - Disaster cycle YT -
3. Hidden Inca Tours, Brien Foerster - material evidence YT -
4. Thunderbolts Project, Tallbot/Thornhill e.a. , archetypal evidence and EU theory (IMO probable science of the future generations) -
We'll investigate? Who is "we"? You can't investigate yourself?
originally posted by: 2Faced
I beg to differ.
#2
Ben Davidson isn’t afraid to be challenged, and uses peer reviewed material. Please give an example of what he’s wrong about and we’ll investigate.
So there you go, the author of that paper confirms it is not about what Ben is claiming, and it's just one example among many.
I am the second author of the paper you talked about at 7:10. When this was brought to my attention, I was shocked. We scientists tend to ignore all the pseudoscience stuff, but maybe we should pay more attention in the future. We work so hard to educate the public, but these conspiracy pseudoscientists are undoing our work. Thank you, Professor Dave, for taking your time to debunk the conspiracy theories. And just in case there is any confusion, our paper is about clouds in the interstellar medium, and has nothing to do with any of the doomsday BS.
Once I know a source is bad, it makes no sense for me to spend any more time with that source. So you can say maybe the guy is wrong about a, b and c, but check out d, maybe he's right about that. You're certainly entitled to do so if you choose, but there are plenty of reliable sources where I don't have to risk the high probability that if the guy is so wrong about a b and c, that he's probably got errors on d too.
#3
Brien Foerster indeed has some way out there theories, specially his sound resonance stuff...
It really pays to watch his material and shape your own opinion, in stead of “hearing” it from others, including me for that matter. Take the time to listen and watch.
That's just a short excerpt, you can read more if you're interested, but I don't find anything he says credible and that review should give some idea why.
Technically, the plagiarism in the book probably approaches 90%...After a few pages, it quickly becomes easy to detect where he plagiarized versus the apparently rare moments where he had his own thoughts. Typically, these few thoughts were illogical, unfounded, and without citation to data.
In addition to copy/pasting text, Foerster occasionally changed certain data within the passages that he disagreed with to suit his own apparently preconceived notions.
You're entitled to your own opinion, even if it's wrong.
4#
David Talbott
When it comes down to the thunderbolts project, I challenge you to watch “symbols of an alien sky pt.II”, especially the part about “Vales Marineris” and how it came into existence. The archetypal and physical evidence (scaloping, rim craters, line craters, plasma discharge effects etc.), shown along with the theories, are very hard to dispute. Even with limited knowledge on the subject, it is plain to see their theory makes a lot more sense compared to what theories the established scientists came up with. Some science is actually really suppressed, whether you want to believe that or not, and in this case it has been for sure. There’s too much evidence to deny it. Whatever the case, Thunderbolts project, imho, is bonafide and, certainly in case of Vales Marineris, right.
So no models, no predictions or the few predictions they make turn out to be wrong, that's why it's pseudoscience.
GPS satellites in orbit around Earth are also dependent on relativity theory, so I asked the conference host David Talbott if EU theory offers anything like the practical applications that theoretical physics has given us. No. Then what does EU theory add? A deeper understanding of nature, I was told. Oh.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
We'll investigate? Who is "we"? You can't investigate yourself?
originally posted by: 2Faced
I beg to differ.
#2
Ben Davidson isn’t afraid to be challenged, and uses peer reviewed material. Please give an example of what he’s wrong about and we’ll investigate.
At 3 minutes in this video, it's explained that Ben does indeed use peer reviewed papers where he flashes an image of them on his screen. Then if you had actually read the papers, you would know it's not at all unusual for Ben to completely misrepresent what they say.
Suspicious0bservers is a Pseudoscientific Doomsday Cult
Look at the comments to that video. One of them is by @yuanli3731 who says he is the author of the paper mentioned in the video at time 7:10. Look at what the author of the paper says:
So there you go, the author of that paper confirms it is not about what Ben is claiming, and it's just one example among many.
I am the second author of the paper you talked about at 7:10. When this was brought to my attention, I was shocked. We scientists tend to ignore all the pseudoscience stuff, but maybe we should pay more attention in the future. We work so hard to educate the public, but these conspiracy pseudoscientists are undoing our work. Thank you, Professor Dave, for taking your time to debunk the conspiracy theories. And just in case there is any confusion, our paper is about clouds in the interstellar medium, and has nothing to do with any of the doomsday BS.
Once I know a source is bad, it makes no sense for me to spend any more time with that source. So you can say maybe the guy is wrong about a, b and c, but check out d, maybe he's right about that. You're certainly entitled to do so if you choose, but there are plenty of reliable sources where I don't have to risk the high probability that if the guy is so wrong about a b and c, that he's probably got errors on d too.
#3
Brien Foerster indeed has some way out there theories, specially his sound resonance stuff...
It really pays to watch his material and shape your own opinion, in stead of “hearing” it from others, including me for that matter. Take the time to listen and watch.
Here's a review of his book which is largely plagiaraized, but the original parts which are not plagiarized are often wrong. You probably won't bother reading this but here is a link in case you do want to read it:
Review of Brien Foerster’s ‘Beyond the Black Sea: The Mysterious Paracas Of Peru’
That's just a short excerpt, you can read more if you're interested, but I don't find anything he says credible and that review should give some idea why.
Technically, the plagiarism in the book probably approaches 90%...After a few pages, it quickly becomes easy to detect where he plagiarized versus the apparently rare moments where he had his own thoughts. Typically, these few thoughts were illogical, unfounded, and without citation to data.
In addition to copy/pasting text, Foerster occasionally changed certain data within the passages that he disagreed with to suit his own apparently preconceived notions.
You're entitled to your own opinion, even if it's wrong.
4#
David Talbott
When it comes down to the thunderbolts project, I challenge you to watch “symbols of an alien sky pt.II”, especially the part about “Vales Marineris” and how it came into existence. The archetypal and physical evidence (scaloping, rim craters, line craters, plasma discharge effects etc.), shown along with the theories, are very hard to dispute. Even with limited knowledge on the subject, it is plain to see their theory makes a lot more sense compared to what theories the established scientists came up with. Some science is actually really suppressed, whether you want to believe that or not, and in this case it has been for sure. There’s too much evidence to deny it. Whatever the case, Thunderbolts project, imho, is bonafide and, certainly in case of Vales Marineris, right.
As for science being suppressed, if there's some motivation, maybe, like big drug companies might not want to share all their data on negative effects of a drug if it's making them a lot of money...I can understand that motivation. However I don't understand any motivation for scientists to not want to have an accurate dscription of Mars geology. Big Pharma isn't making or losing any money on that. You mentioned Ben Davidson uses peer reviewed sources (even though he isn't truthful about what they say), but who has peer-reviewed Talbot's work? I submit it won't pass peer review because he would have to explain how sufficient voltage and current could be generated to do what he claims, and he can't explain that.
Not only that but I've looked at the electrical arc pits created in labs and the claim that a similar process made craters, and while you can make more or less a round shape from either process, the electric arc pits simply do not resemble the craters beyond that on close examination.
The whole thunderbolts project is a pseudoscientific scam, not just Talbot but everyone else in that field has no credibility and lacks a scientific approach. I think Talbot even admitted he doesn't have any science that predicts things like real scientists do:
The Electric Universe Acid Test
So no models, no predictions or the few predictions they make turn out to be wrong, that's why it's pseudoscience.
GPS satellites in orbit around Earth are also dependent on relativity theory, so I asked the conference host David Talbott if EU theory offers anything like the practical applications that theoretical physics has given us. No. Then what does EU theory add? A deeper understanding of nature, I was told. Oh.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
We'll investigate? Who is "we"? You can't investigate yourself?
originally posted by: 2Faced
I beg to differ.
#2
Ben Davidson isn’t afraid to be challenged, and uses peer reviewed material. Please give an example of what he’s wrong about and we’ll investigate.
At 3 minutes in this video, it's explained that Ben does indeed use peer reviewed papers where he flashes an image of them on his screen. Then if you had actually read the papers, you would know it's not at all unusual for Ben to completely misrepresent what they say.
Suspicious0bservers is a Pseudoscientific Doomsday Cult
Look at the comments to that video. One of them is by @yuanli3731 who says he is the author of the paper mentioned in the video at time 7:10. Look at what the author of the paper says:
So there you go, the author of that paper confirms it is not about what Ben is claiming, and it's just one example among many.
I am the second author of the paper you talked about at 7:10. When this was brought to my attention, I was shocked. We scientists tend to ignore all the pseudoscience stuff, but maybe we should pay more attention in the future. We work so hard to educate the public, but these conspiracy pseudoscientists are undoing our work. Thank you, Professor Dave, for taking your time to debunk the conspiracy theories. And just in case there is any confusion, our paper is about clouds in the interstellar medium, and has nothing to do with any of the doomsday BS.
Once I know a source is bad, it makes no sense for me to spend any more time with that source. So you can say maybe the guy is wrong about a, b and c, but check out d, maybe he's right about that. You're certainly entitled to do so if you choose, but there are plenty of reliable sources where I don't have to risk the high probability that if the guy is so wrong about a b and c, that he's probably got errors on d too.
#3
Brien Foerster indeed has some way out there theories, specially his sound resonance stuff...
It really pays to watch his material and shape your own opinion, in stead of “hearing” it from others, including me for that matter. Take the time to listen and watch.
Here's a review of his book which is largely plagiaraized, but the original parts which are not plagiarized are often wrong. You probably won't bother reading this but here is a link in case you do want to read it:
Review of Brien Foerster’s ‘Beyond the Black Sea: The Mysterious Paracas Of Peru’
That's just a short excerpt, you can read more if you're interested, but I don't find anything he says credible and that review should give some idea why.
Technically, the plagiarism in the book probably approaches 90%...After a few pages, it quickly becomes easy to detect where he plagiarized versus the apparently rare moments where he had his own thoughts. Typically, these few thoughts were illogical, unfounded, and without citation to data.
In addition to copy/pasting text, Foerster occasionally changed certain data within the passages that he disagreed with to suit his own apparently preconceived notions.
You're entitled to your own opinion, even if it's wrong.
4#
David Talbott
When it comes down to the thunderbolts project, I challenge you to watch “symbols of an alien sky pt.II”, especially the part about “Vales Marineris” and how it came into existence. The archetypal and physical evidence (scaloping, rim craters, line craters, plasma discharge effects etc.), shown along with the theories, are very hard to dispute. Even with limited knowledge on the subject, it is plain to see their theory makes a lot more sense compared to what theories the established scientists came up with. Some science is actually really suppressed, whether you want to believe that or not, and in this case it has been for sure. There’s too much evidence to deny it. Whatever the case, Thunderbolts project, imho, is bonafide and, certainly in case of Vales Marineris, right.
As for science being suppressed, if there's some motivation, maybe, like big drug companies might not want to share all their data on negative effects of a drug if it's making them a lot of money...I can understand that motivation. However I don't understand any motivation for scientists to not want to have an accurate dscription of Mars geology. Big Pharma isn't making or losing any money on that. You mentioned Ben Davidson uses peer reviewed sources (even though he isn't truthful about what they say), but who has peer-reviewed Talbot's work? I submit it won't pass peer review because he would have to explain how sufficient voltage and current could be generated to do what he claims, and he can't explain that.
Not only that but I've looked at the electrical arc pits created in labs and the claim that a similar process made craters, and while you can make more or less a round shape from either process, the electric arc pits simply do not resemble the craters beyond that on close examination.
The whole thunderbolts project is a pseudoscientific scam, not just Talbot but everyone else in that field has no credibility and lacks a scientific approach. I think Talbot even admitted he doesn't have any science that predicts things like real scientists do:
The Electric Universe Acid Test
So no models, no predictions or the few predictions they make turn out to be wrong, that's why it's pseudoscience.
GPS satellites in orbit around Earth are also dependent on relativity theory, so I asked the conference host David Talbott if EU theory offers anything like the practical applications that theoretical physics has given us. No. Then what does EU theory add? A deeper understanding of nature, I was told. Oh.
originally posted by: Arbitrageur
Anyway I'd say it's a topic of ongoing research but the data collection and pace of progress in astronomy is fairly rapid, so we will have better guesses in the future of how much of the heavy elements come from what processes.
Ah, the simplest theory of all. Think we’re past that at this point in history. The whole science thing since ancient Egypt and all.
originally posted by: ziplock9000
a reply to: putnam6
Not it's not 'about' to explode
It could be up to 100,000 years from now or more