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Thread #124270   Message #2769564
Posted By: GUEST,Chris K
19-Nov-09 - 10:10 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Who or what is or are Snopes?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Who or what is or are Snopes?
Thank you Joe! Incidently all that you have written is true except my alleged "four minutes guest post".I respect people and always had.I will start my explanation from snopes.com. It is not my style to "smear" someone all over Internet , although I could do it with many subjects on snopes.com.I will give you examples since you required them. One would be "Eye Of God" which was posted on snopes as false.After my research and a letter to them it was corrected as "true photo , inaccurate description".This is where the problem lies.The name was given to it by one of astronomers (plenty of sources on internet)and as far as a photo , it is not a multi-layer, but a spectroscopy photograph.In photographs like that some colors are chosen to represent certain length of electromagnetic wave.Often choice of colors is standard to 1928 wave spectrum drawing , which original is in my posession and reprints are available all over Internet.
Next example is under icon Internet that has a bunch of laughable statements which you will agree with easily, because some of them are "urban legends".Yahoo never planned to charge for service and your Webmaster can confirm that....Others are outdated and some not quite accurate.You judge.

My name is true and if you wish I can compose a last name like a few of "registered"users do.

Sorry for my grammar.Technical books are not known to shine with a great grammar and I am reading other books in my native language.

I hope that my explanations suffice.I wish you all the best of everything.I apologize for "invasion" but had to speak. I will not disclose other examples ,since I value snopes.com for their very hard work on "urban legends".It is still my opinion that they should stick to it and leave other stuff to experts.Wikipedia is much better "filtered" source of a general knowledge and definitely a good source for engineering , electronics and science.They have heads of universities on their panel.It does not mean that someone cannot "seed" a nonsence entry.Wikipedia has a completely different structure than snopes.It gives everyone a possibilities to share knowledge.It will soon change due to a serious problems that jokers cause.

One more thing Joe. This is something that my Mom always tells me:"Do not judge a book by it's cover".

Thank you !

Greetings to all,

Chris K