MASER's

We are to believe that scientific skepticism is religious dogma but environmentalism is not.

Computer Science too.

Journalism, too:

Advocacy, putting an emotional prejudice above intellectual honesty and discovery, seems to be pervasive these days. The effects are visible everywhere.

I blame the Internet, and the segragation of the country between urban (dare I say it?) parasites, and the people who actually make our food and drive our trucks and do stuff.

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You do read the Murdoch media, and take them seriously.

The rubbish you link to is the Murdoch press complaining that everybody els e - who haven't been bribed quite as extravagantly - aren't taking Trump se riously.

In the real world, Trump is a buffoon who has earned every bit of the disda in with which he is being treated by pretty much everybody except the Murdo ch media.

The classes in critical thinking you skipped when you were at Tulane have l eft a gaping hole where your scepticism ought to be.

The people who grow the food and drive the trucks don't need to be too scep tical if they can rely on the urban parasites to make fertilisers that actu ally fertilise the ground, and trucks that stay on the road, but the urban parasites do have to be a bit better-informed.

I wonder who he meant by "you". Mindless snipping doesn't work as well as jurb would like it to.

He did manage to build a working proof of concept prototype with a couple of old searchlights and the venerable 931 phototubes. It was the first time since the 1920 Michelson & Pease interferometer on Mt Wilson that experimental kit was able to measure the diameter of stars.

The crossover is even more complete today with radio techniques like closure phase being used in the near infrared bording visible light.

It is in the nature of a discovery that it was there waiting to be found. It still requires someone to find it the for first time.

The buckminster-fullerene allotropes of carbon had been waiting to be found in carbon soot ever since we started burning fuel for heat. All you had to do was extract it with benzene and purify.

Discoveries are always there waiting to be made. The genius is in noticing that something unusual has happened. Penecillin for instance.

Regards, Martin Brown