The World's Largest Mass Extinction May Have Been Caused by Burning Coal

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago to Science
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Really? I used to think PM was a reliable, steady company that vetted their material. Instead, they take a really loose theory and turn it into a "Global Warming, see what happens" statement. Arggg...


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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    I have seen that story. However, there was never any real use of such a weapon in WW2 as it never got put into wide scale production due to issues with making them, and the fact she had invented it. They spent the are figuting out the firing pins were too thin, the depth mechanisms were bad, and the magnetic exploder was crap, all because of government bureaucrats who refused to spend money on adequate tests before the war, and the idiot secrecy behind the exploder before it as well. It wasn't until the MK37 came into wide use such a warhead was workable and tht was the 60's. Heck, we even had MK14 (WW2 vintage) on the Gudgeon in the 70's before getting the upgrade for MK48. The MK48 control unit looked weird in the control room as it was the only digital thing in the fire control system.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Their torpedoes were deadly, but until homing devices were used it was a crapshoot as to hitting anything. Then along came Hedy Lamar who invented the torpedo homing device which turned the odds in favor of the submarines.Yes, I said Hedy Lamar the movie star, who wanted to prove that you could be beautiful and brainy as well.She even patented the device.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Especially WW2, where getting pounded by depth charges was a routine result of an attack, along with the bonus deal of running mines, which are very sneaky.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    One of my best friends was an ex submariner. According to him, that's a part of his life he'd just as soon forget.
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  • Posted by exceller 6 years, 1 month ago
    Oh sure. Says Global and Planetary Change".

    The writer has as much intelligence as a worm and that is unfair to the worm.

    Have you seen the inside of a University in your lifetime? I don't even ask is you know what scientific inquiry is based on.

    It is a shame to see a writing such as this on this Forum.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Hard to know, since apparently we are configured to look forward, not backward. The cases I have heard of are some overtly aware children, and several people under hypnosis, one of whom described in excruciating detail being on a submarine in the Pacific in WW2, identified the boat, the date and where it was, and it was all confirmed from records.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    AJ, I am not sure being melded into an Overmind is an "afterlife". Although I would say there is some factual evidence that we all have past lives, given the large number of people who have had regressive hypnosis, and who have provided details of other places and times, which then are verified independently.

    Here is some details on the boy and another girl, who was a 30's actor who died in Hollywood.
    https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...
    Maybe some idea for a book?
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  • Posted by $ AJAshinoff 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Childhoods end, by Arthur C Clarke. Very compelling idea concerning afterlife, if you could call it that.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    The book "Soul Survivor" will make the case for some sort of existence post death, and the fact that whatever counts as "spirit" do indeed come back. It is the story of a very young boy, who is tortured with dreams of fire and airplanes and war, who then is counseled and starts to describe things about WW2 and flying, the ship he rode, and his death being shot down. The kid found out that he knew the men he flew with, and was reunited with them at a reunion and was able to actually discuss and tell stories with them about "remember when". None of the vets there left doubting that the kid was the guy who was killed off Okinawa in 1945.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The spirit, soul, atman, whatever, lives independent of the body and either returns to the "great all" or just floats around looking for new flesh to inhabit, or being next to God, whatever you concieve him to be. I must admit that it is a waste of perfectly good material for such a short existence. However, there's so much we don't know that I would leave many options open. WARNING, do not take this as a concession in any form whatsoever as conceding to afterlife in the religious sense.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Its in Pennsylvania, and has burned for many years, so then, if they have this in the bag, why have we NEVER heard demands that they go to any extreme to put out the one there, due to it's horrible killing off of Polar Bears and melting ice? The whole argument is stupid, and always breaks down at some point. Gore and his corrupt generation of the very thing he keeps hawking to the unwashed masses, now underground coal fires millions of years ago killing off almost all life, yet the same thing today is, well, bleh....
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 6 years, 2 months ago
    All you have to do to see that that magazine has turned in to a liberal rag is to flip through it. Popular science is even worse.

    If coal in deposits under the ground was that dangerous. We would have had some disaster in the modern era where the coal caught fire under ground. This has in fact happened, there is a town in the NE US that had to be abandoned due to this.....But it caused no problems for anyone other than the unfortunate townspeople.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I was about 10, I got a huge stack of PS and some PMs from my uncle from the early 60s and maybe even the late 50s. I read them all voraciously. The predictions were entertaining. We subscribed sometime after, and I read them currently in the late 70s/80s. They had interesting data and ideas, decent car reviews, not the politics and just incorrect information as now. Too bad. Another pile of weak-minded, crap to entertain people who can’t use hand tools or understand basic physics.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Growing up in the 60's, PM was a go to mag for kids who wanted to learn more about science and tech. Now, well, just more Lamestream claptrap. The demise of the great is sad to behold...
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 6 years, 2 months ago
    PM and PS have become non-technical, misleading rags. I read them infrequently, and half the stuff I know that is printed is just wrong, like it was written by someone completely ignorant of the subject matter, rather than someone versed that is writing to lay people.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is a great video. Robt Felix shows the correlation of pole reversals and time lines.
    Now we know the cosmic ray impacts and increased volcanic activity corresponds with the GSM. Keep the long johns and parkas safe she is gonna get chilly.
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  • Posted by LazarusLong 6 years, 2 months ago
    This reads like an "Onion" article. Hooray for the "Onion" they've sucked in many pompous fools.
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  • Posted by $ TomB666 6 years, 2 months ago
    PM has been doing this sort of stuff for a few years now. My subscription lapsed because of it.
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