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Skepticism Is Pseudoscience Got to chime in here with a pet peeve of mine, which has little bearing on this topic, other than one of perception. It has always been my take that the evil government is not out there blocking our attempts to learn the “truth” of what is in our skies. I think that...

I agree. good show. lots of fun. Not much meat on the table, but who knows? good for keeping an open mind. pb

And it’s in my neck of the woods. Go figure, all of us old hippies stick together.

Yea, in my mind it is win-win. help our pocket book and help the planet. pb

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hak: I have been collecting solar panels form everywhere over the last several years. The ones I use only gets 22 volts per panel and 1.9 amps, but with that said, it only takes about 6 panels to give the max power of a household outlet (120v, and 10 amps), so to run our house lighting, using...

hak: I was considering getting a scooter, but I went for an eGO electric scooter (http://www.egovehicles.com/) I have had it for about 7 years, and it is great! Of course it gets less mileage than a gas scooter, but with 35 miles between charges, and a 120 common household outlet, it is too...

Ramanathan, V., & Feng, Y. (2008). On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead. <CITE>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,</CITE> 105(38), 14245-14250. Rind, D., Lean, J.L., Lerner, J., Lonergan, P., and Leboissetier, A...

All: hope this is not too long, but I am copying some very well respected, peer reviewed papers on climate change for those of you who might be on the fence on this. Please, if in doubt, don't just look at the resource, but choose some of the papers and read for yourself about how humans are...

For my two cents, one cannot change the mind of a true believer, (Lamar Keene considered it to be a cognitive disorder). It is our ego that makes us want to make a "true believer" accept our position. Sometimes, all we can do is nod and smile. I know from my own experience, that there were...

Double Nought, Good points. I am reminded of the late, great Joseph Campbell in his book, "The Hero's Journey".　 The one direction that they tell the "hero" not to go, (usually in mythology it is North), he ends up going.　 It is that need to learn that overcomes our fears that makes us transcend...

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p> I second, (or is that third) the idea of a discussion on why it seems that a good percentage of UFO and paranormal people go "off the deep end". An interesting aside- a higher percent than the norm of...

Mike: good points on the "out of the box" thinking. I too do not look at Para cast as a formal lecture on abnormalities. I enjoy the show because it is "out there" as you state, and I have fun with it. The only problem with our guest, (as I said in my original post), he is a Douche bag.　 In...

Chief Brody: You are too kind on your assessment on "Dr. Richard Sauder". I would define this guy as a classic "Douche Bag". I am not a spiritual person, but I think I can recognize spiritual people like the Dalai Lama. Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith. These guys are the real thing. They do...

Lancemoody et al. I don't know if I would go as far as to say it is all "bull-shit". I am reminded of Rumi's statement that goes something like: "The only reason there is fool’s gold, is because real gold exist". This is a good way of saying that sometimes in all that weird “bull-shit” we...

I agree with Ezechiel. The better drunks that I know come from the ivory towers. I use to meet at a local watering hole with other physics students, and do "homework", till all hours. Great times. While I also agree with Apcalypto that this guy was kind of a flake, I do take the view point...

Dr. John Brandenburg was an interesting guest, and although he did tend to embellish some of his findings on Mars, I found his knowledge made for a fun and interesting show. With that said, I think the guy was getting his drunk on. If you listen to the show a couple of times, (which I tend to do...

I don't know about the BS part. While we cannot predict earthquakes, I do think that the "supermoon" can be a trigger to a fault that is set to go. At first I thought that this was crap, but I did the arithmetic with the old F= GMm'/r^2 using the average distance the moon is from the earth...

Yea, great paper, but as Lance said, lense flare is my first guess, and if they do not rule that out, then the paper is worthless. good try. E for effort.

Freaking French! I get it that this guy is upset, and it sucks that Japan is not telling the people what is really going on, but... What can they do? I am not trying to take the side of the government, but if one looks at the reality of the problem. Tokyo has 13 million people. What the hell can...