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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:53 amI think it would be more useful to try to convince people using sound arguments. Name calling will only alienate them and steel them against your cause.Wastral wrote:How many different words can I use to say, ignorant moron. Nah, 2 works fine.
Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 3:00 amMoapaPk wrote:OK, turn the nasty toward me.
I recall another strange debate in the 1980s. We were investigating "magma energy" -- drilling into the supposed magma body below Long Valley (include Mammoth Lakes) and using circulation of steam to derive energy.
Many people were convinced that we were going to trigger a catastrophic eruption in Long Valley. The debate wasn't helped by the fact that one of my colleagues had published a picture showing Long Valley sitting on an immense magma chamber. The debate was eerily similar: "how can you guarantee there will not be a catastrophic eruption?" Well, growing up through quantum chemistry, I couldn't guarantee with 100%...