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Craig Venter is my hero, first he sequences the human genome and now this.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20005533-1.html
Sounds like Dr Frankenstein...what kind of monster has he created?Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
This has so much amazing potential for vaccine development. It's brilliant, I'm sure this technology will be saving lives 20 years from now. Venter will probably never get the Nobel prize, he's unpopular amongst a lot of scientist, but he's genius at getting things done and securing funding for ground breaking research. People throw money at the guy for any little idea he has.Quote:
Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC
Don’t be too offended; at least they got the south part right. :nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by dizzydoll
I have to say i'm highly impressed by this! :)
http://news.ie.msn.com/article.aspx?...ntid=153507543
be more impressed if they were streaking the length of IrelandQuote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
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I understand Dizzy's reaction, it's almost exactly the same reaction I had... We've had years and years and years of crap from the rest of the world and the people selling that crap to ignorant others can't even pin point us on a map. It's frustrating. People judge us so easily without knowing a thing about us.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madame X
Oxford Scientist argues the Earth Does NOT rotate on its Axis. ''Quick ! Where's the remote'' ???? (LOL) !!! That man should be fired, of course !! (And was) !!!!!
Scientist Dr Neville Thomas Jones (formerly of Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University) offers verifiable proof the Earth cannot possibly be 'rotating on its axis once each day'. That it's fixed in space and does NOT rotate on its axis. Able to be conclusively demonstrated by measuring satellite positions relative to the Earth. And it can be confirmed by the various proofs provided in this paper.
No answer from NASA, of course ! Nor from supporters of Galileo and Copernicus. As usual !!!
'Geostationary Satellites in a Geocentric Universe' (2002)
http://www.geocentricperspective.com/geosat.pdf
There's an entirely verifiable provable refutation of Dr Jones's findings here: http://www.xmission.com/~jwindley/bibjones.html
Really ? And what part of the 'refutation' addresses the facts ? I'd like to see it. Nothing on that thread deals with Dr Jones's article in any detail.
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Originally Posted by TheFifthElement
I put it down to brain overload. All those qualifications (???) - Ph D, D I C, M Sc (x2), B Sc. The poor guy has obviously burnt out most of his brain synapses and in the process taken his eye off the ball (or should that be globe?).
It's simple, the entire universe is revolving around the Earth from our perspective, in the same way that the Earth is revolving on its axis from the perspective of the rest of the universe. There's nothing so mind-blowing about this that you suddenly need to create a web site to include drivel about Earth being the centre of the universe. Unless of course there's money to be made.....
Discover for yourself the kinematics involved in an Earth-centric cosmos, where we are the centre of both God's attention and affection. Special price of $14 (US) or £7 (UK).
He's trying to make a fast buck by revealing some 'amazing truth' he alone has discovered. What next, Elvis returns and proves the Earth is actually flat?
Utter tosh.
You must be right. We don't want to overload our brains, do we ? We don't want to check what he actually wrote.
Great !! It's laughable.
Actually 'making a buck' didn't come in to it. The author of that article provided it free of charge and is still providing it free of charge. How does that suit you ? And 9 years later no reply has been given to it. Makes you think, right ? But hey, we don't want to overload our brains, do we ? Over to you Mr Nasa.
Speaking of making a buck on publications, how about these wonderful publications -
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/ic/ic2.htm
Don't you just love fair and reasonable criticism of science fiction ?
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Originally Posted by hillwalker
Well actually I'm managing to cope at the moment. If I come over all dizzy I can always go for a lie down.....Quote:
You must be right. We don't want to overload our brains, do we ?
Anyway, what I balk at is the religious under-current this so-called Oxford graduate inserts into his thesis - that we must live in a geo-centric universe because his letter-by-letter belief in a book made up of a mish-mash of ancient texts suggested it was so, and now it is his mission to go and prove it.
Belief in God hardly requires a belief in this planet being the centre of any universe. But Dr. Jones thinks otherwise.
He begins by advertising his wide repertoire of credentials - presumably in order to lend weight to his postulations and attract anyone gullible enough to accept his quackery, then he throws in a bit of religious gobble-de-gook, and finally proceeds to turn scientific evidence on its head so that it fits in with his little view of how the world really works.
He is harmless, so I say we should let him enjoy his moment of glory. It doesn't mean he should be taken seriously.
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Have you actually read the same article that we have? It's a precise, eloquent and methodical answer to this nitwit's pseudo-science. What part of it DOESN'T deal with his article?Quote:
Originally Posted by Musicology
And M, I'd be very keen to understand your definition of the word 'fact'. I suspect it is rather different from my definition of the term, and indeed the definition of the vast majority of the human race.