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Do you negate that what crashed into the towers were real planes?

Just a side note: On September 11, 2001, I was at my workplace which happens to be a major TV station. In most of the rooms there were TV sets running with various broadcasts from CNN to BBC. I had CNN on mine and saw the second plane approaching LIVE ON THE SCREEN. Nobody will be able to...

May I suggest that the URLs in the EX tags are automatically length-reduced, just as the inline ones? Mainly for aesthetic reasons, of course ...

Al DiCicco is giving the bogus advice about rain water collection again:remember when testing rain water. collect in a clean bowl. no runoff from roofs trees ... collect the first 5-10 min. of a rain. before placing into sample container for mailing, shake up the water a bit. heavy metals...

Yes, it was a La Niña year, but the spike was extraordinary. I was citing from memory when I wrote about the record set in Namibia. The fact is that in several areas there was no precedence at all for last year's amount. Some values are here: Rainfall records dating back some 95 years in the...

I've been to Namibia last year, and they recorded the highest amount of rain since 1898. I visited a friend on a farm who said he'd never seen the grass grown so high ... This is probably sort of anecdotal, but still consistent with predictions that a warmer atmosphere will hold more...

Conspiracy proponents seem to have a hard time accepting that debunkers may be as passionate as they are themselves.

Atmospheric soundings for Melbourne Airport at 2012-03-29, 00:00 UTC (should be 10:00 AM locally, right?): http://weather.uwyo.edu/cgi-bin/sounding?region=pac&TYPE=TEXT%3ALIST&YEAR=2012&MONTH=03&FROM=2900&TO=2900&STNM=94866 At first I was hoping to see a correlation, a layer with a low...

Purportedly a smoking gun: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F5rjgz46Qw I was not able to stand his rambling over the whole length, but as far as I could make out, his conclusion is that it is unlikely that a lower plane is producing a more persistent trail than a plane above it. The...

A real classic from 1953: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kraftgenie/4489358332/ Edit: Oops, already in the blog article.

My main issue with GMO crop producers (including Monsanto) is with the concept of chemical poison resistance. It's the decision of the customer to pay "double" for seeds and poison, but the real problem is that the use of the matching poison is encouraged, which may lead to health problems for...

Hmm, if I understand you correctly, there is no specific phenomenon that your collection of hints and assumptions tries to explain. You were made aware of the chemtrail theory, which people are using to "understand" seemingly strange atmospheric manifestations. You however knew or you...

In all the extended discussion, I seem to have missed an important point. Maybe the sheer amount of text has veiled it. Most conspiracy theories are attempts to explain seemingly unexplainable phenomena. They provide explanation B, often opposed to official or scientific explanation A...

You are correct, of course. Not sure how my memory messed up there. Probably an article about a U-2 pilot going into retirement. That's what you get from quick firing without proper research. Let that be an example to all ... :rolleyes:

The SR71 is in the museum. Let's see - they reactivated the U-2 which has flown its last mission not long ago. And now there is Global Hawk and "the Beast of Kandahar". Much more cost effective, does not need a life-maintaining system for a human pilot. If there ever was a project Aurora, it...

Here is a little personal request to all sides. I am following the discussion with interest, but the enjoyment of reading is diminished by having to scroll through never ending full quotes of previous posts. It is also a bit hard to figure out what specific point of the quote is discussed...

We have discussed before how conspiracy theories have come to thrive in the recent decade. My personal list contains the following points (quoted from my 'contrailscience' comment): The human brain is predisposed to connect dots – independent of reality Most conspiracy theories explain...

As a German, I want to make it perfectly clear that there is no plan to invade France - at the moment. I mean, seriously, why should we want to do that? Sentimentality? Red wine from Germany has improved tremendously over the last decades, so we can strike that off the list. And anyway, our...

I think the perception depends on the audience. People favouring the scientific side will probably be amused. That includes me; I still like your mock video with the contrailing geese which I find absolutely priceless. The other side may be less amused and not inclined to read your report at...

We still don't know if the two kinds of crop are identical or if they are different varieties.