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by alexjrgreen
Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: With any major scientific and technological breakthroughs...
Replies: 13
Views: 4133

Tom Ligon wrote:The thing is, I can't retire until I have broadband there.
Can you retire from SIGMA?

Following on from MirariNefas: Broadband by Balloon

Aerostats - Emergency Communication and Sensor Platforms
by alexjrgreen
Wed Jan 27, 2010 10:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: It Is Official Himalayan Glaciers Are Not In Trouble
Replies: 41
Views: 7572

MSimon wrote:It is comforting to know that flat out lies will be accepted if they move the agenda in the correct direction.
This is the big flaw in "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof".

Every claim requires convincing proof: otherwise people see what they expect to see.
by alexjrgreen
Tue Jan 26, 2010 5:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Homogenized Sea Level Rise - Another IPCC Fraud
Replies: 16
Views: 5176

TallDave wrote:Sea levels have been rising since the last Ice Age ended.
And where the glaciers were, the land has risen too. Sometimes faster than the water, as in Scandinavia.
by alexjrgreen
Sat Jan 16, 2010 11:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
Replies: 131
Views: 32754

CaptainBeowulf wrote:Old English:

Eal menn weorthan brothor

(More or less. Not sure I got the declensions 100% right. Don't get much chance to practice dead languages.)

:P
Eart þu se Beowulf, se þe wið Brecan wunne?
by alexjrgreen
Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:53 am
Forum: General
Topic: There Have been Some Complaints
Replies: 35
Views: 23985

ravingdave wrote:All roads lead to Rome." ? You sound like an Italian traffic engineer. What, you don't like the roads here in America? Are Italian roads somehow better?
Rome, GA...
by alexjrgreen
Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
Replies: 131
Views: 32754

CaptainBeowulf wrote:drunk with fire
feuer can also mean "passion".
by alexjrgreen
Sat Jan 16, 2010 10:27 am
Forum: General
Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
Replies: 131
Views: 32754

MSimon wrote:Could you translate that into Yiddish?
College Yiddish has "Ale mentshn zaynen brider"...
by alexjrgreen
Fri Jan 15, 2010 6:38 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38810

... {examples from a period of more than two thousand years of Jews being persecuted by their neighbours} ... Racism and anti-semitism are alive and well in Europe, as a trawl through any newspaper archive quickly shows. People who are different are easy targets, and racism is a tempting mob card f...
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:21 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38810

MSimon wrote:
alexjrgreen wrote:They found plenty of other ways to get themselves hated...
Yeah. Like craftsmanship, trade, and banking.
Like charging 43.3 per cent interest per annum on loans in France under Philip II Augustus (1180-1223), and double that under King John II (1350-1364).
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38810

Such a charming people. Treating people as second class citizens for generations doesn't bring out the best in them... So true. Look at how the Jews behaved in Europe when they were sixth class citizens. Suicide bombing by Jews was endemic. (/sarc) They found plenty of other ways to get themselves ...
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:25 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Physics question
Replies: 23
Views: 10707

Re: Physics question

A point mass m is attached to one end of a rod of negligible mass and length l. The rod is suspended by its other end from a frictionless pivot, so that it can swing freely in a vertical plane, and is lifted to the horizontal and released. What is the average downwards force exerted by the rod on t...
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:18 pm
Forum: Theory
Topic: Physics question
Replies: 23
Views: 10707

Re: Physics question

chrismb wrote:What has this got to do with Polywell theory?
What has an apparently simple but actually hard to solve ordinary differential equation got to do with Polywell theory?
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38810

MSimon wrote:Such a charming people.
Treating people as second class citizens for generations doesn't bring out the best in them...
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38810

Because they aren't Israeili citizens . Over a million Palestinians have Israeli citizenship... Funny thing is: no matter how much they dislike the Israelis when given the opportunity to join their Palestinian brethren they decline. The Catholics in Northern Ireland didn't want to move to Eire eith...
by alexjrgreen
Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: AGW Supporters always ignore this question
Replies: 183
Views: 38810

TallDave wrote:
Discrimination against Palestinians and in favour of Jews is endemic in almost every aspect of Israeli bureaucracy.
Because they aren't Israeili citizens.
Over a million Palestinians have Israeli citizenship...