fishonjazz
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Holy piss, the Apollo moon missions were fake?!
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Absolutely.
Log is probably fishing this story out of his bathroom "bowl", ya know, some overworked moms just don't pay that much attention and their kids become, at one time or another, "fishermen" who love to smear the fudge all over the bathroom. This just doesn't really seem to me to be the Log we know.
And before rushing to any judgment, it's actually true that almost all meteorites are indeed "star fragments".
The chemistry of the universe begins with hydrogen. It takes stars to generate higher elements. Maybe an exception with Beryllium and Boron and Lithium which perhaps can be generated from high energy collisions of protons or light nuclei in the upper atmospheres of planets with magnetic fields. Not an expert here, just prattling common education or perhaps miseducation.
Solar systems including rocky planets and gas giants are generally thought to be the consequence of some destabilizing event inside a star where stuff explodes out somehow.
So the question here is really did Log actually go to India (hyrule?) and actually find something outta this world.
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I think you pretty much nailed it as far as what Log most likely did. I hope @Red learned something about meteorites from this post.
So, since I actually have met Log and could describe him fairly well, and since the mother of my daughters has raised actual scholars who do stuff like astonish their teachers and make the Sterling Scholar ranks, who if they do stuff like internet games won't tell mom or dad about it...... I have to admit I'm an ignoramus in the world of fantasy, except my own world of fantasy of course.
At this point, I believe Log fits the description of a a king from the Sand world. He confessed once that his wife has friends of the other kind who actually are intrigued by him. And why wouldn't they be.
In his world he is the only male, perhaps, or a secret yet to be revealed prince. And it's not that much of a stretch from "Ganon" to "Log".. Speculating here, of course, but this is the one that fits the most points of fact I know. Second guess would of course be "Goron", but that's a tribe more or less, and Log is not all that warlike. But he was in Reno, a literal hotspot of lava rock and mountains, and though I didn't see him roll I can attest that if he did curl up in a fetal position, he would roll very decidedly.
And, really, Reno is just the kind of place to find someone outta this world.
We should perhaps enquire as to why he left and dwells in a cave high above the Mojave desert now. Ya know, that cave with the big rock chair on the ridge looking over the desert. The best view of the Sand world. Something outta L' Amour's Lonesome Gods.
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Dude I found like a dozen. Wut wut!!
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When you say "Dylan", he thinks you're talking 'bout Dylan Thomas, whoever he was.
For some, meteorite dealing has been very financially rewarding, and some risks...
I'm a meteorite dealer who makes millions from rocks which nearly got me killed
WITH a machete at his throat and a gun at his head, Mike Farmer noticed the kid holding the firearm was shaking – they were scared, and that made the situation even more dangerous. “I was jus…www.thesun.co.uk
Since I was talking about carbonaceous chondrites and their rare composition, it’s somewhat of a coincidence that a very recent British fall has the meteorite collecting world, and meteorite scientists, beside themselves with excitement:
Rare Meteorite Found in U.K. Driveway Could Hold Secrets of the Early Solar System
Thousands of people spotted the fireball on February 28, and more fragments may still be scattered in Gloucestershirewww.smithsonianmag.com
@red. The link here is great.
So, imo...... the stuff in our solar system from the formative event(s) has a defined reality in terms of elemental composition. It underwent some segregation in the formation of planets. It appears that oxygen was insufficient to produce oxides of everything, indeed far from it. It appears there was a lot of hydrogen, but in the chemical composition for molecular formation, the oxygen was used up entirely, as well as most of the hydrogen. Jupiter and Saturn are thought to be gas giants with stuff like ammonia and carbon dioxide and methane.
A lot of carbon reacted with a lot of hydrogen, but some hydrogen remained unused. We have no reason to say unused hydrogen really all "stayed here" in the solar system, but it would take a reason to assert that it did.
I think even the earth had a lot hydrocarbon composition from the outset. We have realized that the earth's internal nuclear processes now includes a region of solid metal under high pressure and great heat that has crystalized with hydrogen included in the lattice, with some percentage of deuterium isotope that is now undergoing fusion and producing heat. This probably didn't happen the first few billion years. The presence of such hydrogen absorbed into metal is likely in the formation of planets f rom metals generally. Almost all metals are known to absorb hydrogen naturally. It just 'fits" inside the metal atom lattice in solid metals. Some metals absorb incredible amounts of hydrogen. But beyond that, in the absence of oxygen or sulfur and other less common non-metals, and in the presence of an excess of hydrogen, all metals will form hydrides. Could be very abundant in the expelled materials from a star. All metals will also form nitrides. Both of these are generally unstable. There is chemical bonding, but likely to react towards halides and oxides and sulfides. But the overall abundance of hydrogen and both the absorbtion and possible formation of hydrides provides a rational path for large amounts of hydrogen to be "stored" in planetary cores.
Scientists have recently determined that deuterium fusion is occurring inside our core. That reaction is thought to produce about half of the heat coming to our surface.
This means our mass from the outset includes enough hydrogen to naturally produce hydrocarbon, or abiotic natural gas or oil. Along with the helium produced by hydrogen or deuterium fusion, these abiotic materials tend to rise from the depths, unless trapped somehow under a solid layer that holds or gathers these gases or light substances.
Hydrogen rising could at some depths, with some heat, reduce carbonates to methane and water.
So, imo, the carbonaceous chondrites are to be expected from the asteroid belt. Their rarity as meteorites found would be more the result of fast burn charter in our atmosphere. I bet they are much more common on the Moon surface.
It is just simple chemistry resulting from elemental carbon and hydrogen abundance.
We didn't even have much oxygen in our atmosphere to begin with. It was CO2 before photosynthesis began.
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I had already googled "hyrule" and found it before Gandalfe's post come up. But that post came up almost the same time I was reading about it. Let's say I was "smelling something" already.....
Let's just say some people have differing cultures. I already confessed to being an ignoramus regarding fantasy games online, other than my own brand.
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Wasn't that Luke Perry's character in 90210?
Don't even.
But thanks. Besides being a heathen generally, he was at least good. I had to google him, too. Bob Dylan I knew a little about.
Bob Dylan might be a perv, but a revolutionary perv rebel. I sorta didn't like the drug stuff but wondered why the war, too. Bob is still goin.
People who don't know God actually, have a kind of world-weary philosophy of sadness and generally love to burble in their beer.
I'm pretty sad about the world, but I don't need the beer. I get all the highs I need from my own chemistry.
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I was hoping you might recognize the song.
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I... kind of did, but not enough, apparently.I was hoping you might recognize the song.
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This is an example of how to end a thread. But the Apollo Moon thing is likely much more enduring as a "Conspiracy Theory".
We have some people in here who love to diss stuff as "Conspiracy theory" who are actually some of the greatest purveyors of conspiracy theories.
"Established Science" or "Consensus Science", for example, can be, analyzed for merits as a "Conspiracy Theory" propagated by little "Peer Review" magazines published with support from giant cartels like "Big Pharma". Even the pillars of respectability of Science can be made uncomfortable enough to react with outrage at podunk professors who poke at their foundational theorems.
I think the "Fake Apollo Moon Mission" is a highly vulnerable topic from both sides. Until we go back, and publish video of the whole mission(s). Questions are there, still, reasonably disputed.
We have some people in here who love to diss stuff as "Conspiracy theory" who are actually some of the greatest purveyors of conspiracy theories.
"Established Science" or "Consensus Science", for example, can be, analyzed for merits as a "Conspiracy Theory" propagated by little "Peer Review" magazines published with support from giant cartels like "Big Pharma". Even the pillars of respectability of Science can be made uncomfortable enough to react with outrage at podunk professors who poke at their foundational theorems.
I think the "Fake Apollo Moon Mission" is a highly vulnerable topic from both sides. Until we go back, and publish video of the whole mission(s). Questions are there, still, reasonably disputed.
When I call something a "conspiracy theory" I don't just mean that I think that thing is false. I also don't mean that it is simply something that two or more people conspired about. When I call something a "conspiracy theory" what I mean specifically is that it is a grand conspiracy that would absolutely require the full complicity of thousands of people, and that within the necessary population of conspirators there are significantly divergent interests and ideologies that would make their working together on such a delicate and precarious endeavor with the type of discipline said endeavor would demand essentially impossible. Further, that for the "conspiracy theory" to be accurate would require not just that people are mistaken or professing false information through misjudgment, ignorance or misplaced faith, but instead that they are acting with malicious intent, spreading lies that they are fully aware are lies.
I could keep going, but I think that get's the basic idea across and why it is so incredibly frustrating when people fall for these ridiculous stories.
I could keep going, but I think that get's the basic idea across and why it is so incredibly frustrating when people fall for these ridiculous stories.
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Well said
Well, I think your statement here is about 100% factual. I have seen that line of reasoning in most of your comments on the genre.
I don't believe there is any such thing in all human history, and probably not even The American Revolution could measure up as a conspiracy theory, nor even the Constitutional Convention. Pretty sure British loyalists saw the active minority of Americans as spoilers conspiring to throw the British government out. But even that minority of Americans were pretty diverse. They differed widely on their reasons. Some were practical men resenting restricrtions and taxes. Some were more philosophical educated believers in advant garde philosophical notions of Liberty and Human Rights.
Hillary once referred to "The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" of opponents to her husband, and perhaps to the "deplorable" opponents of her poliical agenda. I don't think she meant it as defined as you use the term. It was the whole basket of problematic people who didn't support her. All kinds of people, with all kinds of reasons, whom she asserted were more or less ignoramuses for not just loving everything about her. She was not the first totalitarian, and will not be the last, to claim such superiority over common folk who for whatever reasons, might rise in opposition.
I see a problem with the Book of Mormon in the assertion there that "secret combinations" bound by oaths and covenants with the Devil himself are endemic to all human societies throughout history. This is a religious argument that the Devil rules the world. Even in the Bible, the assertion is there at the story of Jesus being taken up to the pinnacle of the Temple and tempted by Satan One of the temptations was Jesus being shown, by the Devil, all the kingdoms of the earth and being offered a place of power or rule over them all, if only Jesus would worship the Devil. Jesus replied quoting Moses: "it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord Jehovah., and Him only shalt thou serve." I'd have to go to the bible to get the exact words of Jesus and the First of the Ten Commandments.
Christians believe that with the atonement of Jesus, Christ won the victory and the contest is actually decided. Daniel says Jesus will be brought before the "Ancient of Days" at the last judgment. The Ancient of Days is generally taken to be Adam, and in this vision it is Adam sitting as Jehovah on the judgment seat. At that time, according to Daniel, Jesus will be given the crown for this world, and will be directly our Lord.
Most Christians simplify the case to refer to Jesus as Lord, as Jehovah, as everything already. One of my disputes with Christianity and Mormons today.
My frame of reference for conspiracy is human nature, in the characteristic we naturally have for privacy and for pursuing our plans discreetly. Forming cliques or sets of like-minded operatives working on the same project, however well-intended. It is sometimes not well-intended, and that is where we need to check our facts and improve our information.
I refer to various organizational schema people can use for cooperative efforts. Open schemes of all kinds are less objectionable generally than tightly controlled and multi-layered plans where information is controlled to the point of need to know. Some of these use methods of gangsters, sorta developing a set of "made Men" who have to fear the consequences of not performing as expected. I suppose these sorts of things might be "Book of Mormon- class" secret combinations.
The United Nations is an open format thatj publishes meetings and speeches and policy decisions and all kinds of objectives, and it is those public stated things that many conservatives believe are inconsistent with our Constitution and our human rights under the Bill of Rights.
I look at people like Bill Barr as being so committed to the institutions of governance that he is too constrained and adverse to prosecuting institutional figures as criminals for their criminal deeds.
I really like human cooperatives of various kinds that operate on the good will and common interests of members under no coercion just mutual benefits. We still have these. I am a member of some. Credit Unions, power and water utilities, farmers and cattlemen cooperatives. Working together for shared benefits.
I bemoan politicians who won't tell us what they are doing, or what they intend to do, or who is paying them or supporting them or contributing to their campaigns. I think we have problems with not only elected officials but all government classes of workers. Not all workers, just the ones who fundamentally are not serving the general public honestly. Or openly.
We also have a broad problem in human nature of expansively talking about things we know nothing about, and speculation on various persons or sets of persons being up to something.
I don't know how to discuss anything starting with no information and trying to reason productively to obtain necessary facts.
Bottom line, I'm moving on. Even the Book of Mormon descriptions of secret combinations don't inform us well enough on all the ways we humans can mess things up, with or without the Devil.
A number of my forays into this topic in these threads have pretty much gone to the point that what I'm talking about is "The Way Things Are" as well as "The way Things Have Always Been." At that level, my critics are saying essentially the same thing as the Book of Mormon, without the Devil being the main actor.
This goes right with the adage from the comics....."We have met the Enemy, and They is us."
Philosophically, this is the same territory as seeing humans as the creators of both God and the Devil, trying to mark the lines between good and evil in themselves.
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