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[Minimalist]

I imagine they would not be too eager to examine other species on this point, Dig. This idea sounds, shall we say, "narrowly-focused!"

[Digit]

Quite Min, but for an accurate understanding of the time it's a course of action that is begging to be done. I was interested to note that not a word about Toba came out. Gone out of fashion perhaps?
The programme is the first in a series, part two next Monday.

Roy.

[Minimalist]

Sometimes people don't ask questions because they do not particularly wish to know the answer. It might turn out to be inconvenient.

[Digit]

Frankly Min there seems to be less and less honesty in science now-a-days.
Can you imagine an investigation like the current global warming one a hundred years ago?

Roy.

[Minimalist]

There is no comparison between now and 100 years ago. We are now in an age of dueling "experts" who can be bought by commercial interests.

It wasn't so long ago that Mobil Oil was running ads in Time Magazine about how good exploratory drilling in the arctic would be for caribou. I'm sure they had someone on the payroll making those claims.


Best one I ever saw was some guy writing an anti-evolution article and his Ph. D. was prominently displayed. When I checked him out I found out that his PH. D. was in "marketing."

[Digit]

Yeah! I found out last week that 40 percent of Physics graduates from Oxford go into finance!
I don't get it!

Roy.

[Minimalist]

Yeah! I found out last week that 40 percent of Physics graduates from Oxford go into finance!
I don't get it!

Roy.

In Michael Moore's last film, Capitalism, A Love Story, he deals with exactly that problem. Lots of the people we do graduate with degrees in math go into finance.

[Digit]

Seems weird to me Min, why not study for your chosen profession, I certainly did so? I doubt that a degree in finance would have been well recieved in engineering circles.

Roy.

[Minimalist]

why not study for your chosen profession,

Money.

[Digit]

Good thinking Bat Man!

Roy.

[Minimalist]

[Digit]

Should be part two on tonight!

Roy.

[Minimalist]

We will expect a report!

[Digit]

Aye aye Cap'n!

Roy.

[Digit]

Nothing different from what we are famikiar with this week. But it did leave me with the same question I've asked before.
They started with the Black Sea as a fresh water lake, then Lake Agassiz broke out into the Atlantic and raised the level of the Med causing it to break through and flood into the Black Sea.
According to them Lake Agassiz was a meltwater lake sitting in the middle of an ice field! Now how is that possible?

Roy.