Just quoting from Thornhill, from Starboy's message:
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An abundance of water on or below the surface of the nucleus (the underlying assumption of the “dirty snowball” hypothesis) is unlikely.
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Then, may I ask, where does the enourmous amount of water and watergroup ions come from in the jets and the coma?
I assume it just happens to be there, in the solar wind, and gets machined out of the minerals of the surface of the nucleus. Sure! and if you believe that I have a bridge to sell to you.
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Originally Posted by VanderL
I explained that the simple idea of an electric comet can be tested in several ways. That makes the approach scientific. Unfortunately we can't "get" to the comet in sufficient detail yet, so we have to ride piggyback on the space missions and sift through publications for clues.
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If the electric comet idea can so easily be tested with another experiment, than it would even be easier to build a model of an electric comet (on a piece of paper, on the computer), which will describe what is going to happen and give qualitative and quantitative prediction.
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Originally Posted by ATKINS
It's about time mathematicians started addressing the real, unbelievably complex universe as it is observed.
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Well, I do hope you do not use an computer or the internet or a telephone to read this bulletin board, because that was all conceived using flawed math. Better be careful there!
Too bad you cannot appreciate the beautiful math underlying electrodynamics and plasmaphysics. You are really missing something there. [url0http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM0EZN2UXE_index_0.html]Take a look here,[/url] to see how the people at Alfven's institute use Cluster to investigate the northern lights, and all the results they get are obtained by mathematics (Maxwell's equations) on the data from the spacecraft.
Math Rules!