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Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by ghthor on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:31PM (#39737263)
The ancients were more knowledgeable then us.

https://youtu.be/J6OsDczx5iM?si=2BcthvU-6X_svTmw

Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by ghthor on Sunday March 17, 2024 @06:34PM (#39738666)
I’m sure the Down voters watched the entire lecture I linked before casting their votes. /s
Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by matkoniecz on Sunday March 17, 2024 @07:39PM (#39739062)
Posting youtube links without explanation next to blatantly false claims is not useful.

Text can be at least quickly scanned through.

Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by lern_too_spel on Monday March 18, 2024 @03:34PM (#39748938)
Didn't need to. I just went to the website of the organization that sponsored the lecture and saw the quackery I expected.

> "The Meru Project has discovered an extraordinary and unexpected geometric metaphor in the letter-sequence of the Hebrew text of Genesis that underlies and is held in common by the spiritual traditions of the ancient world. This metaphor models embryonic growth and self-organization. It applies to all whole systems, including those as seemingly diverse as meditational practices and the mathematics fundamental to physics and cosmology...Meru Project findings demonstrate that the relationship between physical theory and consciousness, expressed in explicit geometric metaphor, was understood and developed several thousand years ago."

https://www.meru.org/

Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by ghthor on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @08:36AM (#39755072)
The Lord, our God, the Lord is one.

r * theta = 1

r ^ 2 * theta = 1

Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by ghthor on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @08:57AM (#39755235)
This is how Stan starts the lecture. His research is the exact opposite of quackery.

> No one should believe what I’m saying. It’s not that I’m telling you anything that isn’t so it’s just that you really need to be skeptical about this sort of thing. This is work in progress; it’s an honest research. I speak quickly and I may say “is” when I mean, based on the models and based on the references, it is my best conjecture that this “is”. So I’m not saying “absolute truth” when I say “is”, I’m just trying to fit things into a short time period.

> This is very controversial materiel because of, in the words of a friendly scholar, “It cannot be so”. And what he means is that if “it is so” then there is a lot of readjustment to be made. And I try to explain to people that this really doesn’t say anything like, “I’m right and you all are all wrong.” It says rather that this is deeper level integrates a whole range of material. And it demonstrates that what the scholars have been saying and what the religious people have been saying, and what the different religious people have been saying; they’re all right, but in their own context and if you go deeper you find something more common.

Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by lern_too_spel on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @01:51PM (#39758432)
So the lecture starts with quackery as well. At no point does he say that he is using the scientific method to verify any claims. Instead, he says that the religious people and scholars are right because of magic.
Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by ghthor on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @03:02PM (#39759099)
You should really watch the lecture. He is very scientific in his methods, he is an extremely competent scientist.
Re:Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeati... by lern_too_spel on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:44PM (#39781001)
He talks like a duck and walks like a duck. If these religious quacks had made their claims with science, they wouldn't have been ignored. Instead, they made their claims with magic and then retconned their claims to fit the actually believable results from science. It's always the same with these nuts.