IM conversation with adam

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Originally posted by Sayonara³

Is that supposed to make me think he isn't trolling you for responses?

 

well, the stuff he talks about he genuinly believes...the insults are a different story..

[Sayonara]

That guy has issues.

 

Does he still read the forums, despite not being able to post?

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Originally posted by Sayonara³

That guy has issues.

 

Does he still read the forums, despite not being able to post?

 

He IMed me a week or two ago about something that was posted, so I think he does sometimes.

[Sayonara]

He may have hundreds of tiny, invisible imp-like spies

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A little voice told me Giles knows adam.

[Radical Edward]

Originally posted by blike

A little voice told me Giles knows adam.

 

blasphemy, Giles is a nice guy.

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wait, not giles...

 

STILES

[RED FIRE COW]

When I saw the name of the thread I thought damn I must open up a can of beer to enjoy the Bullshit Im about to read hehehe and surely Adam made my day hahaha. I ask myself why? what is he trying to proof? doesent he know hes conversation is being posted on the thread and its making him look like a total Idiot?

[Dudde]

maybe that's why he does it?

 

some plot to look stupid on the science forums...a most dastardly plan indeed...

[Radical Edward]

apparently the earth starts to stop tomorrow.

 

http://www.zetatalk.com

[fafalone]

That site is just pathetic. A good pseudoscientist doesn't say that something will happen on a specific date, because on May 27th, we'll all be sitting right here laughing when the poles haven't shifted.

[Radical Edward]

we can all laugh as normal when the sun rises at the normal time in asia. some of the debunking sites are rather cool though I thought, though there are too many clever people wasting their time on this crap.

 

oh, is adam still about, or is he on top of a mountain somewhere?

[matter]

this thread is hilarious and has entertained me at work.

[Sayonara]

Dagnabbit! Now I'm gonna have to do research to find out...:slaphead:

HYPERBUMP!

 

Turns out it was more like 750,000 years ago last time the poles flipped.

 

Can't remember what it was that happened 30k years ago but it was something spiffy.

[Glider]

Hmm, even 750,000 years ain't so long on the grand scale of things. There's no record, as far as I'm aware, of mass extinctions or other majorly bummy things at that time.

 

Wasn't it 30-35k years ago that all the ice melted (apart from the poles)?

 

Hell of a bump by the way.

[Dave]

I'd forgotten about this thread, one of the old-time classics

 

Glider: I think you're right, it seems to ring a bell somewhere.

[Sayonara]

There was definitely something.

 

There are plenty of extinctions that line up with evidence of pole shifts, but I don't remember the source for that. I read it years ago.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Pardon me, but I don't understand.

 

What disease does Adam have?

[Sayonara]

Crapjaw.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Or, he's a crackpot.

Crack, and pot, in one word.

[J'Dona]

Haven't checked the forums in a while (chilling during half-term) but I've read this and I haven't seen anything more hilarious related to pseudoscience in my life.

 

Oh, here's an interesting article too, relating to the Earth's magnetic field:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994985

 

Solar wind to shield Earth during pole flip

15 May 04

 

Hollywood now has one less disaster scenario to worry about. The Earth, it seems, will be safe when its magnetic field falters during the next reversal of its magnetic poles.

 

A new model of the way the Earth interacts with the solar wind indicates that a replacement field will form in the upper atmosphere during the switch.

 

Scientists had previously thought that the planet would be left without a protective shield to stop lethal radiation from space reaching the surface.

 

The strength of the Earth's magnetic field is known to drop during "magnetic reversals", when the north and south poles swap places. Records of the field direction, frozen into sediments laid down on the seabed, show that the magnetic field has reversed hundreds of times in the past 400 million years.

 

In normal circumstances, the magnetic field protects the Earth's surface from dangerous high-energy particles, including particles from the sun and cosmic rays from deep space.

 

But as the field switches polarity, it can drop to below 10 per cent of its normal strength for thousands of years. Such a weakened field would allow lethal radiation to reach the Earth's surface, with potentially disastrous consequences for the atmosphere, the climate and particularly for life.

 

Opportune moment

 

In a paper to be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, Guido Birk and Harald Lesch of the University of Munich, Germany, and Christian Konz of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching report an investigation of exactly what happens when the field is drastically reduced or vanishes altogether.

 

Their simulations show that the solar wind - the million-kilometre-an-hour stream of hydrogen and helium nuclei from the sun - wraps itself around the Earth in a way that induces a magnetic field in the ionosphere as strong as the original field.

 

"We were quite surprised about its effectiveness," Lesch says.

 

The news comes at an opportune moment. The Earth's magnetic field is showing worrying signs that it is about to reverse again. Not only has the magnetic north pole wandered by 1100 kilometres in the past 200 years, but its strength is dropping at a rate of 5 per cent a century.

 

"This is the fastest decrease since the last reversal 730,000 years ago," Lesch says.

[admiral_ju00]

Crapjaw.

 

 

i think you should unban and invite him. so that we could have some more nice discussions. heck, i'm sure they'll be better than those blasted marcian movies, eh?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I agree, actually. As long as he's restricted to Pseudoscience and General Discussion.