Comments on: Aieeeee!! No Volcano Monitoring!!!! Aieeeee!!!!

By: Jeep-Eep

Jeep-Eep — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:05:52 +0000

I second ten. I know we have problems with our mental health system. M*bus is proof of that. He’s an arguement for doubling the money spent on such in of himself.

By: MadScientist

MadScientist — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:30:10 +0000

@NewEnglandBob: Well, that information about the planes getting all the data for the weather forecasting is just plain wrong. Long-term forecasts always get progressively worse for a variety of reasons, but sparse data due to lack of aircraft flights is not one of them. Aircraft have some equipment on board such as the “storm scope” (to help avoid thunderstorms and thereby hopefully avoid the worst of the turbulence) but their meteorological capabilities are next to nonexistent. In fact they still receive their weather reports from whatever Flight Information Region they happen to be in (or unofficially from nearby pilots if they are not within a FIR). Information for numerical weather forecasting comes from satellites and numerous types of instrumentation on ground stations (though most ground stations only have surface wind, pressure, temperature, humidity, and rain measurements and often, for historical reasons, only report values twice a day).

By: Pete Moulton

Pete Moulton — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:22:35 +0000

But not all, Greg. Just enough gets through the filter that I get two or three good laughs a week.

By: Jason Thibeault

Jason Thibeault — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:39:57 +0000

Look… on behalf of Canada, we’re really very sorry for Mabus’ continued nonsense. We’re working on it, honest.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:44:08 +0000

Birger, no, that is a person who uses the name Dave Mabus. He live in Canada. He hates atheists and is always sending stuff like this around. Most of it gets filtered.

By: Birger Johansson

Birger Johansson — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:26:24 +0000

Since I am from Sweden, I have no experience of the concept of “poe”….is this what comment @2 is?

No politicians should talk about science without doing their homework, I have seen too many examples of that in Swedish debates….an exception is the stem cell debate, our government actually had an advisor who was well versed in that science, since some of the first cell lines were created here.

By: sinned34

sinned34 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:25:12 +0000

Another Dave Mabus flyby, I see. When will the Montreal Mental Health department get around to picking him up?

By: Duane

Duane — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:57:18 +0000

Also don’t forget that Sarah Palin made fun of government funding of fruit fly research. Of course, as Hitchens quickly noted, some of the greatest breakthroughs in genetics were made by studying and manipulating fruit fly genes.

When does funding something seem stupid to a Republican? When they don’t understand it. When don’t they understand it? Always.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:43:34 +0000

thanx Lorax. now the song is stuck in my head. 🙂

By: Dave X

Dave X — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:22:16 +0000

Atheists have no answer to death?

Death is just exactly what it looks like. No more, no less.