tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post3548588227199593968..comments2023-12-19T09:40:12.020-08:00Comments on The Emoluments of Mars: Srsly, is there ANYBODY who believes Kerry Cassidy?expathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-74747655597437830352017-02-23T15:11:34.958-08:002017-02-23T15:11:34.958-08:00Thanks, good piece. Notice that nowhere is my arti...Thanks, good piece. Notice that nowhere is my article does the word <i>conspiracy</i> appear. Although it could have.expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-26556622334731377982017-02-23T14:41:08.249-08:002017-02-23T14:41:08.249-08:00@Adrian
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/sho...@Adrian<br /><br />http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/nope_it_was_always_already_wrong<br /><br />Figure since you expect others to do the work for you, take a gander at that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769267688059852099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-623837565216478242017-02-14T04:00:00.515-08:002017-02-14T04:00:00.515-08:00@WS
So you are the smart one then I gather ??
&q...@WS<br /><br />So you are the smart one then I gather ??<br /><br />" notice that most conspiracy theories only hold up *provided* the reader does not subject them to any sort of scrutiny. "<br /><br />You fail to notice and/or mention that a high percentage of what you call "most conspiracies" do hold up when subjected to scrutiny! Maybe you should look up the definition od the term conspiracy theory AND do some background research on the who and why "invented" this term and go from there.<br /><br />good luck<br /><br />AdrianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-43430215643016837992017-02-13T02:47:21.115-08:002017-02-13T02:47:21.115-08:00[quote]
I for one would hope that nobody believes ...[quote]<br />I for one would hope that nobody believes the sort of tripe that Cassidy is clearly trying to spread. <br />[/quote]<br /><br />Sadly, I think Kerry Cassidy and her ilk hold a strong appeal for not-very-bright people.<br /><br />The thing about science articles is that you have to be willing to sit down, read them (sometimes several times), and *understand* them in order to get anything out of them.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the Woo World doesn't require all that much from the reader in the way of understanding or comprehension: barely literate articles appeal to barely literate people. A large (and, I am sorry to say, ever-growing) segment of the population is part of that unfortunate demographic. I think we can look forward (if that's the needed phrase) to Kerry Cassidy's appeal broadening as barely-literate people try to understand the world they inhabit whilst lacking the basic literacy and numeracy that such understanding requires.<br /><br />I notice that most conspiracy theories only hold up *provided* the reader does not subject them to any sort of scrutiny. When you're barely literate, I expect you are too busy congratulating yourself on having been able to read the theory *at all,* let alone scrutinise it. <br /><br />WS<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-39729344891163888092017-02-10T16:15:01.374-08:002017-02-10T16:15:01.374-08:00Kerry is world famous in the woo world. She and he...Kerry is world famous in the woo world. She and her former partner Bill Ryan played at being a real life Mulder and Scully by interviewing pretty much anyone who is anyone in the alt-reality community. She's spoken at any number of conferences and even run a few. So yeah, she's someone of note in her little corner of the universe.Chris Lopeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603182786879935663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-14909248038147839702017-02-09T11:44:12.717-08:002017-02-09T11:44:12.717-08:00I for one would hope that nobody believes the sort...I for one would hope that nobody believes the sort of tripe that Cassidy is clearly trying to spread. <br /><br />So many issues... for a start anyone seriously wanting to "sabotage" these satellites or the program then knocking out a few clocks amongst a redundant set would be ineffective and a stupid waste of effort.<br /><br />Leaving aside the childish cloak-and-dagger theme, most people in the legitimate scientific community will know the serious demands made on space hardware during launch - which is why (in Europe) we have <a href="http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering_Technology/Test_centre/Testing_Support_Facilities" rel="nofollow"> such massive and thorough test facilities</a> to emulate launch conditions on the ground - and will also know how complex and precise an instrument such as an atomic clock actually is. <br /><br />To keep such an fine instrument capable after launch is a difficult challenge and there are always going to be the occasional failures - hence the backups in the first place.<br /><br />The failures which have so far occurred do not bring the program itself to a stop, (again, the backups...) and when one views the whole 'package' of 32 satellites (2 as spares) each with 4 clocks then things are brought into a better perspective than the distorted view of Cassidy would suggest.<br /><br />On another tack, the Schiaparelli mission is one part of the overall EXOMARS program and it has NOT been a 'failure'. That the lander entered a late-stage problem with what appears to be timing, perhaps caused by a sensor failure, did not prevent the greater deal of the required measurement and other data being received on the ground. <br />That was the major requirement of it - recall that is was the <b>Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module</b> - which indeed did demonstrate with measurements and other data the factors involved in entry, descent and landing. That's a success, even if there was a small disappointment in the final step.<br /><br />The results of both the sets of activities (navigation with Galileo, exploration with Exomars) are progressing and doing so in a positive sense without any nefarious 'goings-on' that Cassidy seems to be dreaming about.Trevor Gale (tgale@xs4all.nl)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-49676419333762337492017-02-09T11:01:30.808-08:002017-02-09T11:01:30.808-08:00I suppose that's a fair question--but she does...I suppose that's a fair question--but she does rate <a href="http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Kerry_Cassidy" rel="nofollow">a Rational Wikipedia article</a>, and she claims the Project Camelot Youtube chan has 122,000 subscribers.expathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10369924104634464934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051630750074978974.post-49295659890935986812017-02-09T10:28:36.581-08:002017-02-09T10:28:36.581-08:00Has anybody ever even heard of Cerry Kassidy, unti...Has anybody ever even heard of Cerry Kassidy, until you mentioned her here? You erect strawmen simply to knock them down.<br /><br />Is Adrian a boy or a girl?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com