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Old 15-March-2008, 12:46 PM
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Concerning the title of this thread: What demise?

Rough and dirty at times? Perhaps.

A lot of BS (bad science) flying around at times? Perhaps.

Dead? No way. The action in this part of the forum is alive and kicking vigorously.
This is by far the most activity seen since the turkey timer was invoked; I think it was triggered by more queer observations near Saturn, Mercury, and in navigational data from near Earth flybys; and two big NULLs: No gravitational waves down to new sensitivites, and no WIMPs - no Weakiy Interactvie Dark Matter Particles down to constrants that make galaxy behavior even more difficult to explain. By the rules of the board, there are a LOT of threads that could be reopened on the bases of new evidence.

One question for moderators is: the new Mercury gravity anomaly data came in while this thread was in progress: should the turkey timer be automatically reset? Who decides; and how; when new evidence is new evidence? The first cut of LIGO science run 5 is in - do we have to wait until the scientific examination is exhaustive?

What a silly rule for a science board that has such a rich topic to explore!
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