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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 31, 2011 8:59:02 GMT 1
Have a lovely day and may you have many more
xxx
Peter
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 31, 2011 10:03:09 GMT 1
Thank you, Peter. I had forgotten about it until I logged in just now. 64, aaargh!
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Post by eamonnshute on Mar 31, 2011 10:16:41 GMT 1
If we had eight fingers instead of ten you would be 100!
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Post by principled on Mar 31, 2011 11:37:47 GMT 1
Don't worry Marchesa, with a bit of jiggery-pokery using the hexadecimal system, we can get you down to 40 no probs. As I see it, the only problem with age is that 24hrs seems so much shorter than it used to be! Not sure whether this is due to age or the bending of space-time as we get older. I must seek clarification from STA. P
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 31, 2011 15:10:08 GMT 1
Thanks, all!
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Post by carnyx on Mar 31, 2011 17:31:08 GMT 1
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Post by Progenitor A on Mar 31, 2011 18:00:47 GMT 1
We'll still feed read you ... Good one Carnyx! ALL together now....
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 31, 2011 18:24:22 GMT 1
Thanks carnyx for sending me the article to read. I read it. I cannot judge it but it seems a poor reason was put forward for not publishing it. If it has something to say about cosmology that could be halfway relevant and thought-provoking it deserves a hearing.
After all we are expected to accept without gagging very many weird and wonderful things about both macro and micro level physical phenomena. I agree with the conclusions about peer review and the protection of the reputations of the orthodox.
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Post by marchesarosa on Mar 31, 2011 18:29:58 GMT 1
Thanks for the Beatles song, too! Lovely!
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Post by rsmith7 on Apr 1, 2011 0:45:39 GMT 1
Happy birthday old girl! You should take my approach and remain 25 regardless....or after too much beer - 19.
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 1, 2011 3:04:25 GMT 1
Thank you, Mr Smith.
I spent my birthday poring over planning permission applications for two extensions I plan to build and making tea for plumbers installing a new boiler in a new position and creeping around under the floorboards - them, not me - not yet anyway! (I'm not averse to a bit of creeping around under the floorboards even at my advanced age!)
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 1, 2011 3:06:56 GMT 1
Referring back to your article about Cosmic Background Radiation and the difficulty of opening a debate on stuff that is taken for granted, Carnyx, I just came across another reference to the Makarieva work on the genesis of winds by co-author Douglss Shiell who is encountering similar indifference to and incomprehension of a "new idea". He says, Is it possible that a key phenomenon concerning how the World’s climate works has been widely overlooked? Climate scientists acknowledge many areas of uncertainty but the suggestion that a principle cause of global atmospheric motion has been neglected is, understandably, hard to swallow. But being hard to swallow does not make it wrong. For science purists all new ideas should be welcomed and assessed on their merits. Are the new ideas logically consistent with what we know already, can they make predictions that we might use to distinguish them from alternatives? This is not simply an academic point – let me recount an ongoing story from my vantage point.
I live in a forest in central Africa: lush and green with regular rain. We are thousands of kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the West and the Indian Ocean to the East. How does so much rain get to be here in the middle of a continent (a similar pattern is seen in the Amazon)? You might think that climate scientists have this all clear and agreed long ago … but I am not certain that this is the case. One theory, developed and promoted primarily by Anastassia Makarieva and Victor Gorshkov implies that forests are the reason we get rain in the centre of Africa and other continents is the forests. They attract rain.......
More here on Judith Curry's Climate Etc "Water Vapour Mischief: Part II"judithcurry.com/2011/03/30/water-vapor-mischief-part-ii/#more-2774Seems as if there is quit a lot of intellectual inertia around in Science academe (not to mention entropy!) which is not helped by intellectual attack dogs like STA barking at anyone who raises queries about the orthodoxy.
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 1, 2011 3:15:52 GMT 1
I'm sixty-four, you know! (Quavering voice).
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Post by marchesarosa on Apr 1, 2011 11:29:18 GMT 1
Lovely to know someone cares, even if its only the NHS. I got notice in the post this morning my very own "bowel cancer screening kit" is speeding on its way to me! Totally unsolicited! Marvelous! The wonders of old age in the UK. No wonder the world and his wife is flooding to our door.
Believe it or not, this test is now offered to the 60 - 69s EVERY TWO YEARS and will next be extended to the 74s. Is this money well spent? I suppose it depends on whether bowel cancer is detected or not. Still..... one wonders.
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Post by rsmith7 on Apr 1, 2011 12:29:35 GMT 1
Well, at least you'll get some birthday "action"
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