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Old 23-March-2004, 02:32 PM
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The majority of the posters at GLP no longer believe in PX or Nancy. Those that do are the 3 or 4 left that are still her followers OR just some (insert explicative here) kid who is wanting attention.

I am starting to wonder if Nancy herself really believes in PX. Reading her posts over a few weeks makes it seem as though she is attempting to become a person that can point and laugh and say "HA! You actually fell for it!".

Then again I could be wrong
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That's definitely true. Grant is the only person registered there who seems to agree with her. There are numerous "anonymous cowards" who chime in, but one wonders if those are Nancy's sock puppets since they sound much like her.
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Old 23-March-2004, 04:34 PM
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The majority of the posters at GLP no longer believe in PX or Nancy. Those that do are the 3 or 4 left that are still her followers OR just some (insert explicative here) kid who is wanting attention.

I am starting to wonder if Nancy herself really believes in PX. Reading her posts over a few weeks makes it seem as though she is attempting to become a person that can point and laugh and say "HA! You actually fell for it!".

Then again I could be wrong
Is there something we can do to re-establish her "credibility"? Otherwise we may lose a major entertainment source here. :roll:
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Old 23-March-2004, 07:14 PM
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Post that Charlie in Dayton found PX in his telescope. Exactly where she said it would be.

Just kidding Charlie.
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Post that Charlie in Dayton found PX in his telescope. Exactly where she said it would be.

Just kidding Charlie.
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Old 23-March-2004, 09:00 PM
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Let's see, there is grant, NL, Cara, and all their ac personalities. Oh yea, don't forget about pinocchio or emily or whoever she is.

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Is there something we can do to re-establish her "credibility"? Otherwise we may lose a major entertainment source here. :roll:

I'm sure that someone else will appear soon enough with a new and wonderfully "out there" idea for why the Goverment is hiding the roswell aliens from us all. :roll:
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If she posts more one her site like this:
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Right now [Mar 22] you can see the entire moon sphere like another light source is playing on it or somehow it is lit up differently. [and from another source] If the moon is a crescent because the Earth is blocking the sunlight, then the dark side of the Earth is facing the moon. And since there is no air in space to refract the light hitting the moon, just what the heck is going on? Is there some freaking behemoth gigantic looming glowing red brown dwarf somewhere between the Earth and the Sun? [and from another source] The unlit part a brownish color above the crescent on the bottom. [and from another source] At 6:45 today [Mar 23] I noted the Azi of the Sun to be 97°, and the Alt a full 30° up. Per Skymap, this is the correct Azi, but the Alt should only be 8°! We have consistently noted an extreme arch in the sky. [Note: the Earth Tilt.]
http://www.zetatalk.com/index/z03.htm

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Dam burst destroys MS homes [Mar 18] http://www.disasternews.net/news/new...articleid=2174 ‘The Big Bay Lake Dam broke Friday afternoon, sending a devastating 8-foot wall of water through several communities in Lamar and Marion counties. According to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), Big Bay Lake drained its 3.5 billion gallons of water in three hours. MEMA's Stokes said this type of disaster, a dam bursting and flooding many communities, is the first of its kind in Mississippi.’ [Note: no cause mentioned.]

It took me a whole 5 mins to learn that residents have has serious concerns about the Dam since 1990 when water was observed seeping from under it, and that they had apparently had a lot of rain. While the engineers haven't gotten around to figuring out what went wrong, it seems that those are two far more likely explanations than PX, lol. :roll:
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Old 24-March-2004, 05:09 AM
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Post that Charlie in Dayton found PX in his telescope. Exactly where she said it would be.

Just kidding Charlie.
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Right now [Mar 22] you can see the entire moon sphere like another light source is playing on it or somehow it is lit up differently. [and from another source] If the moon is a crescent because the Earth is blocking the sunlight, then the dark side of the Earth is facing the moon. And since there is no air in space to refract the light hitting the moon, just what the heck is going on? Is there some freaking behemoth gigantic looming glowing red brown dwarf somewhere between the Earth and the Sun? [and from another source] The unlit part a brownish color above the crescent on the bottom.
Oh my sainted Aunt Petunia's bunions...I don't know who's worse, the low-IQ Fear Factor reject who wrote this, or the low-rent all-star who printed it. Neither one of them knows the first thing about basic astronomy. The Earth is not blocking the sunlight. The Moon has moved so it's between us and the Sun, so the side facing us is dark. (Hah...thought I was gonna say the dark side of the Moon is facing us, dintcha? Well, it is...it's just that it's the same side we always see that happens to be dark now.) The light that's illuminating the dark area of the Moon is Earthshine...yep, Earth's reflectivity is lighting up the Moon now. Actually, some astrophotographers eagerly await conditions like this for some of their best efforts. The light isn't strong enough cause glare, they can go for longer exposures to get greater details, and things just look a bit more interesting that way.

Evidently these types think there's a lunar eclipse at least twice a month (the conclusion they draw here proves that they don't know their backside from a hole in the ground when it comes to planetary/lunar orbital mechanics).

And no, there's no "...freaking behemoth gigantic looming glowing red brown dwarf somewhere between the Earth and the Sun...". End of story.
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Dam burst destroys MS homes [Mar 18] http://www.disasternews.net/news/new...articleid=2174 ?The Big Bay Lake Dam broke Friday afternoon, sending a devastating 8-foot wall of water through several communities in Lamar and Marion counties. According to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), Big Bay Lake drained its 3.5 billion gallons of water in three hours. MEMA's Stokes said this type of disaster, a dam bursting and flooding many communities, is the first of its kind in Mississippi.? [Note: no cause mentioned.]

It took me a whole 5 mins to learn that residents have has serious concerns about the Dam since 1990 when water was observed seeping from under it, and that they had apparently had a lot of rain. While the engineers haven't gotten around to figuring out what went wrong, it seems that those are two far more likely explanations than PX, lol. :roll:
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I am not surprised that Nancy does not understand Earthshine, as most people unfamiliar with astronomy don't. But to talk about orbits and all that, and not understand the phases of the Moon is truly astonishing. And yet, some people still listen to her. Wow.
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I am not surprised that Nancy does not understand Earthshine, as most people unfamiliar with astronomy don't. But to talk about orbits and all that, and not understand the phases of the Moon is truly astonishing. And yet, some people still listen to her. Wow.

Again, I'd point out that we are dealing with PX'ers here BA. 'Nough said.
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To be fair I didn't know about Earthshine until Rush the band, not the fat guy behind the golden EIB microphone, had made a song called Earthshine. Then again I wasn't very involved with Astronomy either. I kind of fell into it because of my fascination with Rockets, a new endeavor also and my research on Apollo, which led me to this site a year or so ago and Space.com. This all comes from listening to the song Countdown on the "Signals" album.

So my fascination with astronomy is all Neil Peart's fault!
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To be fair I didn't know about Earthshine until Rush the band, not the fat guy behind the golden EIB microphone, had made a song called Earthshine. Then again I wasn't very involved with Astronomy either. I kind of fell into it because of my fascination with Rockets, a new endeavor also and my research on Apollo, which led me to this site a year or so ago and Space.com. This all comes from listening to the song Countdown on the "Signals" album.

So my fascination with astronomy is all Neil Peart's fault!
"Earthlight" by Issac Asimov is one of my favorite science fiction books. An astronomer is the hero (and he gets the girl). (I said it was fiction.)
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...There are numerous "anonymous cowards" who chime in, but one wonders if those are Nancy's sock puppets since they sound much like her.
Indeed. Nancy's audience dropped like a doomsday meteor.
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To be fair I didn't know about Earthshine until Rush the band, not the fat guy behind the golden EIB microphone, had made a song called Earthshine. Then again I wasn't very involved with Astronomy either. I kind of fell into it because of my fascination with Rockets, a new endeavor also and my research on Apollo, which led me to this site a year or so ago and Space.com. This all comes from listening to the song Countdown on the "Signals" album.

So my fascination with astronomy is all Neil Peart's fault!
"Earthlight" by Issac Asimov is one of my favorite science fiction books. An astronomer is the hero (and he gets the girl). (I said it was fiction.)
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I am not surprised that Nancy does not understand Earthshine,
Maybe because she has had to much moonshine ops: oops, {slaps hand and goes stand in the corner}
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Just having discovered glp this weekend all i can say is...

Odds for me doing some work for once instead of surfing the web arent very high for next couple days.
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