I think the big problem of a lot of the people coming up with ATM ideas is that they feel that it's others' jobs to educate them about what the mainstream says. I mean, how many times have you heard "Look at the picture," as if that's what the mainstream does? How many times have I had the requisite knowledge to disprove an ATM theory?

Don't get me wrong--I've learned a lot in ATM, even in the interminable threads like solid solar surface. It's just that they're really amazingly obviously wrong, and you can't fit that fact into some people's heads with a crowbar.

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