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On 2002-06-04 16:47, pvtpylot wrote:
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On 2002-06-04 14:20, JayUtah wrote:
What baffles me is that you seem to honestly believe this procedure establishes fact.
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That's because you care about facts and take pride in getting them right. What cosmicdave cares about is his status as a self-styled "authority" in the UFO community and the attention he gets because of it.
What's funny is that if you do a search for "Dave Cosnette" on Google it seems that one of his claims to fame amongst his own peers is that he has been accused of copyright theft and headline grabbing for the sake of increasing his site's hit count. Here's the URL:
http://www.100megsfree4.com/farshores/ncc2.htm
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Good stuff pvtpylot. What I find particularly paradoxical is this quotation by cosmicdave in the link provided:
"What was it that Stanton Friedman said? 'Don't bother me with the facts, my mind's made up!'."
LOL! Talk about pots and black kettles! This quote is a precise description of cosmicdave's psychology!
JayUtah explains the concept in more detail:
"This is why you see conspiracists jumping from topic to topic without ever conceding. They're trying to defend their kernel of belief, deploying whatever argument they think will protect it. There is no attempt whatsoever to get at the actual truth. The actual truth is irrelevant; protection of the belief is paramount." (from the preceding post)
There is, however, one other significant problem with cosmicdave. I suspect his inability to engage in a logical debate is based upon his obvious difficulties with the written English language. I am not slinging ad hominems here: while it is possible that he is deliberately not reading responses to his posts properly, I think it is more likely that his reading comprehension skills are woeful.
In addition, his knowledge of the space sciences is clearly next to nil. Here's an example of one of Jay's attempts to educate our poor Dave:
Cosmicdave: "Satellites in geosynchronous (also known as geostationary) orbits ..."
JayUtah: "Incorrect. Geostationary is a subset of geosynchronous. In other words, an orbit can be geosynchronous without being geostationary. A geosynchronous orbit is one whose period is equivalent to the rotational period of its primary. A geostationary orbit is a circular geosynchronous orbit with a zero inclination, rendering the altitude and azimuth of the satellite constant from a point on earth."
That certainly helped me to understand the definitions better, but cosmicdave? Sorry Jay, but you probably lost him after the first sentence.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject of communication skills, I JUST HAVE TO MENTION THIS as it's been really BUGGING ME from the beginning:
Dave! Among your numerous grammatical and spelling errors this one is the most common, and the most annoying: you constantly abbreviate "you are" to "your". The contraction of "you are" is YOU'RE!
Right, that feels better...