Akria

Well, I'm an amateur physicist, an amateur historian, an amateur mathematician and many other things, all of which I would say that I'm an amateur in, despite the comments made by my classmates. It's amazing how easy it is to give an impression of genius with just a few esoteric facts. XD
I'm also an amateur grumpy young man who acts as though he's seventy, so I'm just behind you there.
Anyway, where are all the posts? Darn it; I thought this topic was interesting...


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Besoeker

Impressive. If you are young , you probably have a good memory too and that is a great asset.
All the posts seem to be in other threads..........

Akria

Actually, my memory is pretty bad and I'm extremely absent-minded...

"Impressive". Yay! Thank you.
And I'd like to contradict you. You would not descrive yourself as an intellectual; having read a few of your posts I would say that you most certainly are!

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Besoeker

Nah. Read the considered responses to my posts. I am obviously an egocentric fascist cretin.
:wink:

Akria

lol
This appears to have turned into a conversation between a mere two people.

Um... Anyone else gonna consider posting? I thought it was an interesting topic...

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Besoeker

Interesting to you and I.
I think the problem is that not all that many people* know enough about physics at any level to be able to discuss this kind of topic in the level of detail that you have.

And when one does make a post with any kind of considered analysis of data it invites posts like:

Or Clippo, a retired scientists he says, got the same sort of treatment.

It is difficult to continue a constructive dialogue when faced with such comments. It's a shame, but that seems to be the way it is.

Just my thoughts...........

You may care to look at the topic GW/CC is not man made.
I have posted a graph of number of earthquakes v time. It seems to be causing Paullotion some difficulties. I'd appreciate your feedback on how I could make that data more accessible to him.

*I mean people in general. Not just the members of this forum.[/quote]

Akria

Unfortunately I believe that you may be right.
I have a very low opinion of the intelligence of most of humanity nowadays and it has often led me into depression, twice somewhat severe.
Frankly, I would not trust the average citizen nowadays to add two to two and come up with the correct answer.

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Feldoon

If it helps your point - When I did Physics at GCSE I got a B. With no revision. Making half the answers up.

Considering grades are given in comparison to the rest of the country, yeah, hardly anyone does.

Personally, I like to learn.

Though I always did wonder how much energy it'd take to warm the planet up.

g hall

Akria

Are you sure it would be as arithmetical as that?

Besoeker

It is. As Akria put it:
In general, the energy required is mass x rise x specific heat.
Double the rise thus requires double the energy.