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A computer simulation is experimental science in the truest sense. The simulation is nothing more than a numerical solution of a physical system (this is done all the time, from the trivial, like calculating the speed of a falling body, to the complex, like calculating the position of a planet, to ...

... Computer models ... are themselves, in fact, actual experiments... Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...

"Changes In The Sun Are Not Causing Global Warming, New Study Shows http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122425.htm" Oh, joy! Another computer model. Whatever happened to collecting observations and actual experimentation? http://www.mps.mpg.de/dokumente/publikationen/solank...

Just in:

Changes In The Sun Are Not Causing Global Warming, New Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 122425.htm

A test subject jumps off the top of the Sears Tower and makes copious measurements on his descent. - 0 sec s = 0 m/sec - 5 sec s = 41 m/sec - 10 sec s = 49 m/sec - 15 sec s = 53 m/sec - 20 sec s = 53 m/sec - 24 sec maintaining terminal v, turbulents negligible, all is well. 53 m/sec air flow around ...

Any idea what is that bright object near the top of the image; the one just above what looks like a contrail? Perhaps an artifact? Thanks Look! It's a bird ... It's a plane ... No its Sup ... Aww, its just a plane's vapor trail . Actually, I was inquiring about the bright, round object above the va...

Karthik wrote:Any idea what is that bright object near the top of the image; the one just above what looks like a contrail? Perhaps an artifact?

Thanks

Look! It's a bird ... It's a plane ... No its Sup ... Aww, its just a plane's vapor trail .

If one side has 100,000 skewed studies and the other side has 100,001, that does not constitute a win. It reminds me of a story. A grade school classroom was given a gift of a fluffy, long haired baby bunny. With the task of assigning a name for their new mascot they had to determine if it was a boy...

You state "At this time I guarantee there is no conclusive evidence for either side of the argument". If you would actually examine the report (since you said, "I saw no reason to study it"), you would see that Albany University blatantly violated its own published policies and ...

Dr. Skeptic wrote: "Not to say that there isn't some truth in the article sited, but for it to have merit I would need to see sited proof of data fabrication, omission and cover-up. " Try opening your eyes. How about this report I cited earlier: http://scientific-misconduct.blogspot.com/2...

Chris Peterson wrote: "I think you don't understand how science works in the real world. There are almost never incentives to take the consensus viewpoint. Science is competitive, and scientists are largely driven by their desire for prestige- not finances. There is no better way for a scienti...

(hippies)I know what you mean...Who in their right mind would want to breath in Aresnic, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Hydrogen Cyanide, Carbon Monoxide, or Pesticides like Flumetralin, Pendimethalin, or Trifluralin on a regular basis? (say for 5 or 6 minutes at a time and about 20 times a day.) Well Hipp...

No, they can't tell where it's coming from without modern analysis. Most of the arctic soot comes from south Asia (an area that the locals didn't even know existed until a one or two hundred years ago), and determining that fact took a fair bit of effort involving modern instrumentation and analyti...

Einstein also was said to be poor in math Einstein was one of the most brilliant mathematicians of our times. See: Did Einstein flunk math? More than one of the books I have read have Einstein asking more gifted friends to work out difficult math problems for him. Did Einstein think in pictures rat...

aristarchusinexile wrote: "Plus the people around the world dying of heat exhaustion?" I guess this is a suggestion that I am a horrible, awful, nasty person for not believing the AGW hypothesis since I obviously care nothing about human suffering. According to http://www.bmj.com/cgi/cont...

No theory can be proved, only dis-proved. So your argument is: because the limits of data and data interpretation on AGW cannot prove an increasing trend of of ∆t (an unprovable point), resolves as: without proof positive, we as owners of this planet should halt collection of data on this heresy, hu...

A Blue Moon is simply the second full moon of a calendar month - nothing to do with it's color. A Blue Moon will occur in any year when the first full moon falls on or before January 11th.

http://www.galaxydynamics.org/spiral_metamorphosis.html

Here is a source of some animations to help answer your questions. Science and art at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles

Maybe this information can be of use in legitimizing argument points, or, filtering out the irreverent.

Hello all i am susan here i tried to see if there is any copyright information provided with each APOD , but there is nothing stated as to the use or distribution of the same does that mean it can be used or it will be a prohibition?, i am confused could any one help me out please. thanks in advanc...

NASA is the R & D department for the US Wake up Dr. Rip Van Skeptic. Silicon Valley, CA and Route 128, MA have been the USA technology development centers for the past 40 years. I'm perfectly awake, Silicon Valley companies expounds on NASA's innovations, or are contracted out on NASA’s dollar ...

Fundamental research isn't, and shouldn't be, limited to producing "useful, practical technology". Of course you are right; however, building Kepler, a new Mars rover, and returning to the Moon require little fundamental research and will produce few spinoffs that couldn't be developed mo...

What an absurd waste of money! It makes you wonder how much intelligent life there exists on earth. Certainly there isn't any at NASA's management. NASA is white-collar welfare at its worst. The agency should be shut down and its budget given to NOAA. Kepler is even more useless than the new Mars r...

The reality of the situation is human nature is to resist change. Human behavior will not change until the present behavior becomes more agonizing than the concept of the change. People will exhibit their bias to a situation based on their comfort level, I would like to see one of our AGW skeptics t...

StACase wrote:

Dr. Skeptic wrote:... and better/smarter driving habits ...

Re-education camps and travel permits, I can hardly wait!

Those wouldn't be my solutions, vehicle taxation based on MPG and stop building/widening roads in congested areas to promote mass-transit would about do it.