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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004
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9:32a - It's Wank of Astronomical Porportions!
The Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board tends to be a bit wanky at the best of times - the general attitude over there is smug superiority about being smarter than all the cranks and conspiracy theorists who run around. Perhaps not entirely unjustified, but occasionally annoying, and I can't help thinking that someday the principles of physics really will get overturned, and then these guys will feel like idiots... but anyway.
Enter Jerry Jensen, self-proclaimed rocket scientist (literally - check out his profile there) and master of impenetrable technobabble, here to show us all how very wrong we are about... well, everything! Frankly, I don't think even he knows what he's talking about, but if anybody is actually able to out-smug-superiority the bad astronomers, it's the cranks themselves.
On why the big bang couldn't have happened: These are important questions because there are also disturbing indices in the galactic evolutionary trends. The quasar population appears to peak in a fairly local Copernican ring. The kinetic energies of ‘red’ to ‘blue’ galaxies found in galactic clusters appear to have been quite stable in the ‘early’ periods leading up to the current epoch, and then appear to have abruptly shifted.
On studying supernovae: I am somewhat in agreement with you. Their is also the possibility of sympathic detonation of a companion white dwarf that is near the critical Chandrasahker limit. The scatter of the data in the curve I presented is very wide (r^2=0.15) and I think only the broadest of statistical parameters can be applied to this data, and that is that the average light curve width, when corrected for time dilation, gets smaller with distance. This should not happen.
On the Doppler effect: The relationship breaks down though, when we try to identify where the Hubble flow creeps in. The first piece of evidence that the cosmic redshift is not Doppler is that the only way Cepheid and Tolman surface brightness distance measurements can be reconciliated is by plugging in magnitude evolution. This in turn, degrades relative to with Tully-Fisher estimates. None of this agrees with the observed local cause of magnitude variance, heavy metal distribution. This is reasonably good evidence for a null hypothesis: Assuming all redshift is Doppler forces the reconciliaton of distances measuring techniques outside of the predicted margin of error.
More on supernovae: Fourth, the critical data reductions of Permutter (the Stretch Factor) normalize at a midpoint z-shift of 0.48. A similar normalization is used by Humay in calculating the Delta(15)b value. In both cases, if there is a Malmquist bias in the collection of the data, this bias will run parallel with any time dilation trend, and therefore be interpreted as time dilation.
If you think maybe he's just talking about things that are beyond you anyway... well, (1) I'm an astrophysics major and he makes as much sense to me as he does to you, and (2), check this out: he's also in a thread about, of all things, ice.
There is a very reasonable and testible explanation: If you try to freeze water in a compressed situation, the molecular bonding necessary for crystal formation will not occur until the temperature has dropped further than the freezing point of water. The additional calories required to bend or break the compressing structure are exactly equal to the additional calories which must be removed to freeze the water. Once the bending or breakage occurs, the water immediately assume the relaxed crystal form and temperature increases dramatically - up to 0C.
Basically, what he's saying there is "pressure lowers the temperature at which water freezes".
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2:53p - Two in one day! I must just have really wanky friends or something...
Okay, so remember a while back I posted that Vegan Wank and the vegans got all pissy? I wonder if the same thing happens with anti-vegans. Only one way to find out.
So here's some wank from ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) anti_vegan, courtesy of the stupendously immature lakini_malich:
First, he plans his amazing Parade of Furs, an event designed specifically to piss off the animal rights activists of the world! Everybody congratulates him on his genius.
Then, it transpires that there is no Parade of Furs... just a Drive-By Meating. Everybody congratulates him again!
Am I the only one here who thinks he could use to grow the hell up?
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10:44p - And lo, so collides customers_suck and bulimia.
Over on Customers Suck, anghella posts to ask if people who work at buffet restaurants are supposed to do anything to stop bulimic girls from binging and purging onsite.
WTF-eth-ness ensues, complete with attempts at detective work, a lengthy argument back and forth about whether the OP is bulimic or not ('she didn't say she was!' 'but she hinted at it!' 'but she didn't say!') and more viewpoints on eating disorders than you can shake a hot dog at.
And I'm not sure if anyone actually answered her question.
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11:08p - More Eating Disorder Wank!
And fast on the heels of the last entry, even more insane person with eating disorder wank!
impure_ over on LJ posts about fucking with the diets of the little kids she's in charge of at a daycare center. Wank and much righteous indignation promptly ensues, including an accusation that the OP is OMG A PEDOFILE! and someone from a pro-ana community basically invoking Snacky's law.
[ETA: added a few choicer bits of wank.]
[Son of ETA: The original post got baleeted, but the lovely schuldig has the first page of it up here in her journal.]
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