BS: KISS keep it simple

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 02:39 PM

Don... Don...

Donald Trump, Dave?

Mind you, don't know about Trump and the science bit....Let me think who else might fit the bill...

Oh, wait...

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 03:14 PM

One of his favoUrite female aids called him a malignant narcissist.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 06:02 PM

The new microbe, a cyanobacterium, was discovered in September in volcanic seeps near the Italian island of Vulcano, where the water contains high levels of CO2. The researchers said the bug turned CO2 into biomass faster than any other known cyanobacteria.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 06:11 PM

Underground microbes can trap CO2. underground CO2 eating microbes

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 07:02 PM

I know Vulcano well. We've been to the summit (it's about 1600 feet) and we've relaxed by its famous, stinking mud pool, declining to enter it, unlike lots of other people there. There is much sulphurous effusion going on at the top. Fumaroles and stuff. Scary in several places. It's been out of bounds for several years due to increased volcanic activity. It's last eruption was in the late 1880s and it was quite devastating. Try to ascend it and you could be fined €500. There's a lot going on round there on land and at sea, most of it excitingly smelly. It doesn't have a great reputation as a good place for a holiday. You can see Stromboli from the summit and the view is glorious. We stayed on the next-door island of Lipari. Quite a lot of the film Il Postino was made on Salina, another close-by island, which produces the best capers in the world. Go and have a look, and don't let the microbes bite you. Another volcano famous for a microbe is La Solfatara at Pozzuoli, near Naples. Geysers, hot springs and hot mud pools are fertile ground for looking for thermophilic bacteria, and one was discovered new to science at Solfatara. I've been there too and it's mightily impressive with its bubbling mud, hot ground and fierce fumaroles. You can't go there any more either, following a tragic accident there in 2017 in which a young boy and his parents died after an unfenced part of the crater floor collapsed. Solfatara is in the large caldera called the Campi Flegrei, or the Fiery Fields, just a few miles from Naples and Vesuvius (been up there too!). It's a supervolcano that's been on high alert for several years following an increase in ground uplift and other seismic activity.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 07:57 PM

Grrr. Damned rogue apostrophe's...

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Raggytash
Date: 19 Sep 23 - 08:40 PM

OK Don, for the third time of asking can you please provide a sensible answer to my response to your post below.

"Strangely enough the hotter the Earth is, the colder Hell becomes."

More abject nonsense.

Can you locate hell for us, have you any evidence of the changing temperatures there, if you can locate it.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 08:05 AM

Good post from Steve's 1st hand observation of Vulcano.

I can not even locate Raggytash's sense of humor.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Raggytash
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 09:29 AM

So, yet another example of you posting utter nonsense, another feeble attempt to try to baffle with bullshit.

No surprise really.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 07:12 PM

What's feeble about Steve's post other than no mention of the miracle microbes?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Sep 23 - 07:20 PM

Just knock it off, you little shit, and answer Raggytash, why don't you.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:03 AM

Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 07:06 PM

Hell will freeze over first.
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Perhaps your scatological remarks have more to do with old ethnic hatreds than science.https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:21 AM

The psychology of hate: Moral concerns differentiate hate from dislike

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 06:59 AM

I thought you were supposed to be a psychologist. That link is completely irrelevant. Now answer Raggytash or just promise us that you'll never post throwaway bullshit ever again, toe-rag. Speaking of irrelevance, there's nothing "scatalogical" about calling you a shit.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 07:28 AM

I'm not anything except curious, concerned, and contemporary.
You guys are ambassadors whether you know it or not. 70-year-old hooligans and trolls are not a good look for the UK. We also have our version of rednecks. Even worse we have Trump fanatics.

a brain mechanism for hate

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 07:30 AM

Still bickering then…??

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 07:50 AM

Asking you to take responsibility for your posts is neither hooliganism nor trolling. The closest to trolling here, though not quite there, is someone with nothing to say accusing us of "bickering."

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 07:51 AM

John, when someone comes to a place you like and starts to shit all over it, it is not bickering to a) ask them to clean it up and b) complain. I know you will say just ignore it but, like shit, it starts to stink after a while and someone has to do something.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 08:12 AM

Dave - Cleaning it up is the Mods’ job. It’s you lot’s bickering that’s making the place stink. Why do you think so many former posters stay away nowadays? They haven’t all died, I suspect many are still around, but I also suspect that, like me, they’re sick to death of a small number of posters dominating threads with their ad nauseam bickering.

Steve - you’re one of the main bickerers. Know thyself. (Virtually no chance of that, I know).

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Donuel
Date: 21 Sep 23 - 08:32 AM

See? Closure of this thread is the goal
of the indecent despite my including interesting links.
Good people could always include science links that are interesting to them.

Perhaps the most compelling link on Mudcat now is Sandra from Sydney's link to a half a million-year-old wooden structure.

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Considering who started the thread and who keeps coming back to argue, there are no innocent parties in the demise of yet another thread. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Charmion
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 12:17 PM

Humans normally have 33 vertebrae, Donuel.

And the Latin name for the domestic cat is Felis catus -- note both spelling and capitalization. Normal people go with "house cat".

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 09:44 AM

Okay, so Kurt Russel (sic) saw it but I'm waiting until Dionne Warwick weighs in.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 12:14 PM

"I am as materialistic as many of you so I am part of the problem, but I can be enlightened at the same time and speak idealistically"

Translation: Do as I say but not as I do.

Sounds like the very definition of hypocrisy.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 07:57 AM

So what will be the new definition of the word simple? Oh wait, I've got it, complex.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Sep 23 - 01:28 PM

Quinoa is not a bean, it's a pseudo cereal or a pseudograin. It does go well with beans though, I make it with black beans.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 12:26 PM

Don, I need you to have a look at my wagers for next Sunday and to give me a future Injury Report.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 01:09 PM

I don't gamble either, I was just goofing with you.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 13 Sep 23 - 01:58 PM

no idea

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 10:14 AM

Don, you might be a little easier to take if you weren't so condescending and judgmental.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 10:51 AM

He could be a pompous jackass at times, as well.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 15 Sep 23 - 08:39 AM

What is the "UI FO phenomenon"? Serious question.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 09:21 AM

Nailed it, Dave.
As a guy who's had 2 MRIs in the last 3 weeks for separate issues I hope Ms. Jepsen's technology comes online soon so I can do it myself, on my sofa while watching golf on TV.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 09:45 AM

Thanks for the update, Dave. It sounds like someday we may have a real version of Bones McCoy's pocket scanner.
I'm not exactly a Luddite but it seems like we need to do something about an overcrowded planet before we start developing tech that enables people to live longer and longer lives. I take no comfort in the phrase "Oh don't worry about it, technology will take care of it".

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Sep 23 - 09:55 AM

Pulled the trigger too soon, I meant to add, look where technology has gotten us so far.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 04:28 AM

It's the deviation from the thread title that gets me. The opening post was addressed to me specifically and promised to simplify his arcane ramblings. It has failed to achieve that object quite spectacularly. It has become a platform for said ramblings and not only explains nothing but tries to imply that I am stupid because I do not understand the workings of his weird mind.

Still, it does achieve a couple of things. Firstly, it reassures me that it is not just me that has no idea what he is on about half the time and, secondly, it keeps all the shite he spouts in one place :-)

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 07:58 AM

See what I mean?

Don, I understand physics and many other things at many levels. What I don't understand is your opinion on science. The 900+ posts in this thread seem to indicate that you are incapable of explaining what you think and why you come to those conclusions. Instead of rational explanation you either just cut and paste someone else's theories or resort to personal abuse. This became obvious after the first couple of hundred posts. The more you do it, the more you show yourself up to be a self aggrandising phoney.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 09:00 AM

Believe it or not, Don, that is a bit better. It shows us a little of how you think. We may disagree but at least you have tried to to explain that your theories started in amateur science and have gone on to pan-psychic theories, which are not science at all. What you still fail to do is acknowledge that many of your past proclamations are not science either but more related to the philosophy of conciousness. And, again, at least you say that something MAY be on the horizon. Theories are fine but not facts. The last personal attack does let you down somewhat though.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 10:13 AM

Starting with Plato science has been a philosophy

And in between religion stepped in and screwed the lot. Only science is, well, scientific. A theory may start as imagination but it is hard work, fact checking, testing and peer reviews that make it more realistic. Explaining theories as being either philosophical or the work of god is the lazy persons way out.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 10:30 AM

Why do Lemon and Pineapple deserve capital letters at the front but mint does not? :-D

I have no idea what a QUESTION COMPETITION ORGY is. I tried Googling it. Bad mistake...

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 12:24 PM

What does "I don't reply to 1955 anymore" mean?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Sep 23 - 05:25 AM

Is this thread about science or politics?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 06 Sep 23 - 04:38 AM

Methane is a terrible greenhouse gas when leaked into the atmosphere but when it is burnt it is much cleaner that many other fuels. Maybe we should be looking at capturing and using the Arctic reserves?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 02:24 AM

"there are more older people under the line than above, at least a higher percentage of older folks"

Is there? Are you sure about that or is it another unsubstantiated Donism?

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 11:17 AM

Aye. I'm still waiting for proof that people who post below the line here are older than those who post above the line. As one who regularly posts on both I find that puzzling!

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 01:37 PM

No misquotes on my part. Here is your exact quote, Don

"The elephant in the room is that there are more older people under the line than above, at least a higher percentage of older folks."

I am still waiting for proof of that statement. I doubt if it is true.

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 02:20 PM

Everyone has an opinion Thompson but facts are sacred. If someone proves that posts below the line are from older folk I will accept it but until then it is just speculation.

For instance, my impression is that Don makes many things up but I will not state that as a fact until I can prove it!

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 02:55 PM

I'm not even sure what that means!

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 23 - 04:17 AM

I see that you were complicit another thread closure Don. I suggest that you keep your arcane ramblings to this thread and then others, including me, can keep our repudiation of your wilder ideas here too. The moderators will be happier if they are not having to police multiple threads

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Sep 23 - 03:17 PM

It would be a good idea to change channel, Don, but when you post your views on all kinds of subjects on many unrelated threads it is difficult to avoid you. Stick to this thread and everyone will know which channel to avoid or watch accordingly. There is only 1 UK politics thread. There is only 1 Trump thread. Let's make this the one and only Don thread eh?

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Excellent suggestion. Duke it out over here. ---mudelf

Subject: RE: BS: KISS keep it simple
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Sep 23 - 02:43 AM

Not bad at all, Don. Just stick to this thread. Simple! (See what I did there!?)

Why do you keep saying "donate to Mudcat" when you cannot possibly know who donates or how much?