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	<title>Comments on: Earth&#8217;s Magnetic Field Has Massive Breach &#8211; scientists baffled</title>
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		<title>By: Poch</title>
		<link>http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/16/earths-magnetic-field-has-massive-breach-scientists-baffled/#comment-87068</link>
		<dc:creator>Poch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope someone answers Peggy.</description>
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		<title>By: Peggy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Peggy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I remember one night long ago, I was about 18 or 19 years old at the time. 
( either 1948 or 49)sitting on a headland overlooking the ocean near Sydney (Australia) 34 degrees latitude, and watching the Aurora Australis lights play the sky.
This phenomenon has never been seen since.  Were there any unusual atmospheric occurences around that time to anyone&#039;s knowledge ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember one night long ago, I was about 18 or 19 years old at the time.<br />
( either 1948 or 49)sitting on a headland overlooking the ocean near Sydney (Australia) 34 degrees latitude, and watching the Aurora Australis lights play the sky.<br />
This phenomenon has never been seen since.  Were there any unusual atmospheric occurences around that time to anyone&#8217;s knowledge ?</p>
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		<title>By: witness11</title>
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		<dc:creator>witness11</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>when was that 17 mile underground big bang inquisition by man fired up??? remember &quot;curiousity killed the cat&quot;</description>
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		<title>By: pochp</title>
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		<dc:creator>pochp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HA HA HA!! At least we&#039;re getting a light break here.</description>
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		<title>By: Cranstorre</title>
		<link>http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/16/earths-magnetic-field-has-massive-breach-scientists-baffled/#comment-71265</link>
		<dc:creator>Cranstorre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mike said: &quot;So I should start wearing a tinfoil hat again?&quot;

There is no tin foil anymore guys and girls, it&#039;s called Aluminum foil. Unless Mike is over 60 I forgive him. Otherwise - buy a periodic table for Krize sakes.

Cran</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike said: &#8220;So I should start wearing a tinfoil hat again?&#8221;</p>
<p>There is no tin foil anymore guys and girls, it&#8217;s called Aluminum foil. Unless Mike is over 60 I forgive him. Otherwise &#8211; buy a periodic table for Krize sakes.</p>
<p>Cran</p>
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		<title>By: pitt bull</title>
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		<dc:creator>pitt bull</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[snip]

&lt;strong&gt;Reply: &lt;/strong&gt; illuminati conspiracy theories not appropriate to this site ~ charles the moderator</description>
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<p><strong>Reply: </strong> illuminati conspiracy theories not appropriate to this site ~ charles the moderator</p>
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		<title>By: Bush-Hat Man</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bush-Hat Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t believe that the core &quot;generates&quot; the earth&#039;s magnetic field.  Think they have it all wrong.  I believe that the massive ion currents that result from the jetstreams that sit atop the troposphere are largely responsible for &quot;generating&quot; the magnetic field (along with some extra help from a rotating ionosphere) and that this induces a field in the iron core which acts as a &quot;stabiliser&quot; (effectively a reactive &quot;low pass&quot; filter, like a kind of magnetic &quot;inertia&quot;) for the field.  This would account for the high variability and rapid fluctuations of earth&#039;s magnetic field as well as its tendency to be oriented to the earth&#039;s axis whilst allowing for the magnetic poles to &quot;wander&quot; around 100&#039;s of km every year.  Recent discoveries of much more rapid field fluctuations than previously known lend strength to this theory, because a core of iron, whether solid or liquid iron, doing a dance like that would be shaking the earth quite violently, but I haven&#039;t noticed such activity of late.  Has anybody else???</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t believe that the core &#8220;generates&#8221; the earth&#8217;s magnetic field.  Think they have it all wrong.  I believe that the massive ion currents that result from the jetstreams that sit atop the troposphere are largely responsible for &#8220;generating&#8221; the magnetic field (along with some extra help from a rotating ionosphere) and that this induces a field in the iron core which acts as a &#8220;stabiliser&#8221; (effectively a reactive &#8220;low pass&#8221; filter, like a kind of magnetic &#8220;inertia&#8221;) for the field.  This would account for the high variability and rapid fluctuations of earth&#8217;s magnetic field as well as its tendency to be oriented to the earth&#8217;s axis whilst allowing for the magnetic poles to &#8220;wander&#8221; around 100&#8217;s of km every year.  Recent discoveries of much more rapid field fluctuations than previously known lend strength to this theory, because a core of iron, whether solid or liquid iron, doing a dance like that would be shaking the earth quite violently, but I haven&#8217;t noticed such activity of late.  Has anybody else???</p>
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		<title>By: Robert Bateman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Bateman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The cloud bands of Venus were brought up by my Astronomy Professor as the most puzzling of all the planetary atmospheres.  They start at the ternimator all pointing to the equator, then rapidly shift to straight across.
The theory being that at night, the jet streams are transporting the equatorial heat to the poles, but during the heating of the day, the energy absorbed sends them straight across.  I may have that in reverse.
Was reminded by the statement above to jet streams heading to the poles.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The cloud bands of Venus were brought up by my Astronomy Professor as the most puzzling of all the planetary atmospheres.  They start at the ternimator all pointing to the equator, then rapidly shift to straight across.<br />
The theory being that at night, the jet streams are transporting the equatorial heat to the poles, but during the heating of the day, the energy absorbed sends them straight across.  I may have that in reverse.<br />
Was reminded by the statement above to jet streams heading to the poles.</p>
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		<title>By: pitt bull</title>
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		<dc:creator>pitt bull</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not  better just a bit faster</description>
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		<title>By: the_Butcher</title>
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		<dc:creator>the_Butcher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;pitt bull&lt;/b&gt;

Your dealer must be better than mine...</description>
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<p>Your dealer must be better than mine&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: pitt bull</title>
		<link>http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/12/16/earths-magnetic-field-has-massive-breach-scientists-baffled/#comment-66675</link>
		<dc:creator>pitt bull</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Once i&#039;ve read that stars could get briefly very intense perhaps our sun is responsible for the heating since we are travelleing almost trough the galactic plane making the magnetic fields concentrate on certain regions only in alignment to the galactic equator.

Also does anyone know about the current manhatten project which is currently being done by chemtrails.

I think there is definitely a reversal on the coming the magnetic fields must be gradually weakening and shifting.

The jet stream is also moving worldwide to the poles, this can&#039;t be some kind of coincidence something terribly wrong must be going on and most of all it is being actively suppressed by all governments.

They want to depopulate the entire world by 80 % but they can&#039;t just build concentration camps all over the place this pole shift will make their dream come true of killing almost everyone.

Unless world war 3 kicks in that could also mean the collapse of human kind.
By the way ww2 started with a depression first....
And looking at the recent economic events well ..... you know .......
deflation then inflation then hyperinflation then a white flash followed by a red cloud of 1000 C at 300 miles an hour....

PS: does anyone have good links about nibiru you toube is biased with disinformation videos anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Once i&#8217;ve read that stars could get briefly very intense perhaps our sun is responsible for the heating since we are travelleing almost trough the galactic plane making the magnetic fields concentrate on certain regions only in alignment to the galactic equator.</p>
<p>Also does anyone know about the current manhatten project which is currently being done by chemtrails.</p>
<p>I think there is definitely a reversal on the coming the magnetic fields must be gradually weakening and shifting.</p>
<p>The jet stream is also moving worldwide to the poles, this can&#8217;t be some kind of coincidence something terribly wrong must be going on and most of all it is being actively suppressed by all governments.</p>
<p>They want to depopulate the entire world by 80 % but they can&#8217;t just build concentration camps all over the place this pole shift will make their dream come true of killing almost everyone.</p>
<p>Unless world war 3 kicks in that could also mean the collapse of human kind.<br />
By the way ww2 started with a depression first&#8230;.<br />
And looking at the recent economic events well &#8230;.. you know &#8230;&#8230;.<br />
deflation then inflation then hyperinflation then a white flash followed by a red cloud of 1000 C at 300 miles an hour&#8230;.</p>
<p>PS: does anyone have good links about nibiru you toube is biased with disinformation videos anyway.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert Bateman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Bateman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tallbloke (01:32:59) :
Yes, the Black Death and the demise of 1/2 the population of Europe actually happened.  So do Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Earthquakes and Volcanoes.  The glass of reason I gave you was full, not made up.

It&#039;s not a question of worry, it&#039;s a question of do we care enough to try and warn, like we do with other natural disasters.
 
Well, do we?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tallbloke (01:32:59) :<br />
Yes, the Black Death and the demise of 1/2 the population of Europe actually happened.  So do Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes, Earthquakes and Volcanoes.  The glass of reason I gave you was full, not made up.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not a question of worry, it&#8217;s a question of do we care enough to try and warn, like we do with other natural disasters.</p>
<p>Well, do we?</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Schoneveld</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Schoneveld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leif, my question: &quot;And if that is so what caused the Little Ice Age?&quot; was not meant as an argument for a solar cause but a genuine question and wascertainly not meant to be a &quot;what else?&quot; argument, as you seems to take it.
The imagination of your reforestation proponent is ludicrous and says something about the peer review process.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leif, my question: &#8220;And if that is so what caused the Little Ice Age?&#8221; was not meant as an argument for a solar cause but a genuine question and wascertainly not meant to be a &#8220;what else?&#8221; argument, as you seems to take it.<br />
The imagination of your reforestation proponent is ludicrous and says something about the peer review process.</p>
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		<title>By: Tallbloke</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tallbloke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robert Bateman (18:46:34) :

E.M.Smith (00:08:26) :
You are overreading things if you think that I am worried. Crop failures from climate change hit Europe in the early 14th century. 

Which were immediately followed by the Black Death and the disappearance of half the population of europe....</description>
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<p>E.M.Smith (00:08:26) :<br />
You are overreading things if you think that I am worried. Crop failures from climate change hit Europe in the early 14th century. </p>
<p>Which were immediately followed by the Black Death and the disappearance of half the population of europe&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: WestHighlander</title>
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		<dc:creator>WestHighlander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As for the Stanford &quot;Tree Diggers&quot; -- I&#039;ve got one word (well in the parlance of VP-elect Biden) -- Younger Dryas
“an event of 1300 70 years duration that terminated abruptly, as evidenced by an  7 C rise in temperature and a twofold increase in accumulation rate, at  11.64 kyr BP…. The transitions…were all remarkably fast, each occurring over a period of a decade or so [Alley et al., 1993]” – see for instance  -- www.agu.org/revgeophys/mayews01/node6.html


We went from Glacial state to non glacial (Holocene period) and then almost dived back into glaciation (temperature wise) in a blink of and eye (on the geologic timescale) and no human activity could possibly be involved

No burning of fossil fuels or rain forest, no spraying deodorant, no tilling of prairie, no draining of swamps

So what triggered the rapid change in global temperature to make a single damped oscillation? -- that by the way seems to have triggered the development of civilization!

Westy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for the Stanford &#8220;Tree Diggers&#8221; &#8212; I&#8217;ve got one word (well in the parlance of VP-elect Biden) &#8212; Younger Dryas<br />
“an event of 1300 70 years duration that terminated abruptly, as evidenced by an  7 C rise in temperature and a twofold increase in accumulation rate, at  11.64 kyr BP…. The transitions…were all remarkably fast, each occurring over a period of a decade or so [Alley et al., 1993]” – see for instance  &#8212; <a href="http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/mayews01/node6.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.agu.org/revgeophys/mayews01/node6.html</a></p>
<p>We went from Glacial state to non glacial (Holocene period) and then almost dived back into glaciation (temperature wise) in a blink of and eye (on the geologic timescale) and no human activity could possibly be involved</p>
<p>No burning of fossil fuels or rain forest, no spraying deodorant, no tilling of prairie, no draining of swamps</p>
<p>So what triggered the rapid change in global temperature to make a single damped oscillation? &#8212; that by the way seems to have triggered the development of civilization!</p>
<p>Westy</p>
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		<title>By: WestHighlander</title>
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		<dc:creator>WestHighlander</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>We need a new Copernicus

It&#039;s totally disingenuous to think of the solar system as the Sun plus a bunch of independent planets and miscellaneous stuff

Truth is -- in reality --  we are inside the Suns atmosphere and the Sun&#039;s magnetic field -- as Sagan said ---  &quot;We are all made of Star Stuff&quot;

&quot;Our Earth&#039;s Magnetic Field&quot; --  is really just the local to the earth region of the &quot;Sun&#039;s much much bigger Magnetic Field&quot; that extends out for hundreds of AU in all directions and is very complex and very dynamic (see Ulysses) -- indeed it is incomplete to not include the solar wind, CME&#039;s, etc that change the coupling from one  dominated by fields to one dominated by particles

The reason that none of this is commonly discussed is that:
1) its fiendishly complex -- and not amenable to modeling
2) its hard for our psychological position to admit once again that in the next level of abstraction in the Copernican hierarchy -- we are not quite as important as we&#039;d like to think

This stuff should be a wake-up call to the true scientists amongst the AGW crowd -- but don&#039;t hold your breath waiting for a mea culpa from Hansen, etc.

Westy</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We need a new Copernicus</p>
<p>It&#8217;s totally disingenuous to think of the solar system as the Sun plus a bunch of independent planets and miscellaneous stuff</p>
<p>Truth is &#8212; in reality &#8212;  we are inside the Suns atmosphere and the Sun&#8217;s magnetic field &#8212; as Sagan said &#8212;  &#8220;We are all made of Star Stuff&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our Earth&#8217;s Magnetic Field&#8221; &#8212;  is really just the local to the earth region of the &#8220;Sun&#8217;s much much bigger Magnetic Field&#8221; that extends out for hundreds of AU in all directions and is very complex and very dynamic (see Ulysses) &#8212; indeed it is incomplete to not include the solar wind, CME&#8217;s, etc that change the coupling from one  dominated by fields to one dominated by particles</p>
<p>The reason that none of this is commonly discussed is that:<br />
1) its fiendishly complex &#8212; and not amenable to modeling<br />
2) its hard for our psychological position to admit once again that in the next level of abstraction in the Copernican hierarchy &#8212; we are not quite as important as we&#8217;d like to think</p>
<p>This stuff should be a wake-up call to the true scientists amongst the AGW crowd &#8212; but don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for a mea culpa from Hansen, etc.</p>
<p>Westy</p>
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		<title>By: vukcevic</title>
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		<dc:creator>vukcevic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;E.M.Smith (10:52:05) :
The magnetite that lets critters sense magnetic fields has been found in our brains too. I use any reference to “magnets did {foo}” as a flag for looney toons tin hat arguments coming, so it pains me to suggest this, but maybe, just maybe, we are tied to the magnetosphere in ways we do not ken … &lt;/i&gt;
 
During solar minima (especially deep once) heliosphere gets compressed, this would reflect on the effectiveness of the magnetosphere …. Or maybe not…?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>E.M.Smith (10:52:05) :<br />
The magnetite that lets critters sense magnetic fields has been found in our brains too. I use any reference to “magnets did {foo}” as a flag for looney toons tin hat arguments coming, so it pains me to suggest this, but maybe, just maybe, we are tied to the magnetosphere in ways we do not ken … </i></p>
<p>During solar minima (especially deep once) heliosphere gets compressed, this would reflect on the effectiveness of the magnetosphere …. Or maybe not…?!</p>
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		<title>By: E.M.Smith</title>
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		<dc:creator>E.M.Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Michael J. Bentley (14:16:06) :
E. M. Smith
Who the heck are you? Been reading your postings which seem pretty well grounded in a plethora of subjects! Interesting reading, keep it up! &lt;/i&gt;

Why, thank you!  But how does anyone say &#039;who they are&#039;?... 

The short form is:  I&#039;m just &#039;some guy&#039; nobody much ever heard of.

The long form adds: Some Guy you never heard of who has a brain that won&#039;t leave him alone.  Things get stuck in it and demand to be kept orderly and consistent.  When the puzzle pieces don&#039;t fit right I can&#039;t leave it alone until they get positioned right.  I&#039;m pretty sure I&#039;m just a bit shy of obsessive compulsive.  Some of the memory advantages, but retaining pretty good social skills.  Like most of the geeks in Silicon Valley... 

I&#039;ve also been around for more than 1/2 century now (God that looks scary) and in that time you accumulate some experiences.  I went out of my way to collect interesting and diverse ones (&quot;This life is NOT a dress rehearsal, TAKE BIG BITES!&quot;)  And was raised in a farm town by parents who made sure I was well connected with reality.

Yeah, plethora kind of sums it up...  At about 6 or 8 years of age one of my teachers said &quot;no one can know everything&quot; and I took it as a challenge ;-)  About 20 years later I had to admit they were right, but by then I&#039;d learned you can know a lot &lt;b&gt;about almost&lt;/b&gt;everything and that was good enough.  I like to read encyclopedias for fun.  Go figure.

Put these together and you get some areas that are known in detail, lots that are known somewhat, and most all of it kept neatly in order.  I also stay studiously away from the areas where I&#039;m a complete idiot ;-)  (Don&#039;t ever expect to hear anything from me about Opera, Ballet, almost all art and artists, African food, clothes fashions, and many others...)

Formal education includes a U.C. degree and a Community College teaching credential along with the education theory units needed for a lifetime credential when California was handing them out.  (Oh, and a Doctor of Divinity that cost me $20 ;-).  I can also put CDP after my name, but nobody every heard of it.

I&#039;m interested in just about everything. Cooking, survival skills, farming, medicine, history, languages, electronics &amp; computing, photography, recreational chemistry, geology, weather and how nuclear physics works.  I can reload my own ammo, grow food and prep it for the table, make explosives from scratch, just like I can make bread from scratch or make a radio from scratch (either tube or transistor), and have been known to knit and sew... including sewing up some animals that needed it. 
 
I&#039;ve been slightly blown up once, destroyed a couple of motorcycles, jumped out of an airplane a few times, piloted a glider &amp; landed it 8-), been scuba diving, overhauled a few cars and rebuilt one motorcycle (and a tractor with my Dad) and lived on a 27 foot sail boat for a year+ that I single handed.  I&#039;ve helped build a family restaurant and made my own corporation.  I&#039;m also a decent shot with guns &amp; bow, and like Karate.  I make my own beer and sometimes I&#039;ve written stories and poems that folks tell me are pretty good.  I really like stock trading, probably because the demands are so high.

Can you tell that I was a Heinlein fan?  With redheads in the family?

Oh, and right now I&#039;m unemployed.  Anyone need a slightly compulsive polymath to do, well anything interesting?

So who am I?  I wish I knew.  Maybe that&#039;s what this life is all about...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Michael J. Bentley (14:16:06) :<br />
E. M. Smith<br />
Who the heck are you? Been reading your postings which seem pretty well grounded in a plethora of subjects! Interesting reading, keep it up! </i></p>
<p>Why, thank you!  But how does anyone say &#8216;who they are&#8217;?&#8230; </p>
<p>The short form is:  I&#8217;m just &#8217;some guy&#8217; nobody much ever heard of.</p>
<p>The long form adds: Some Guy you never heard of who has a brain that won&#8217;t leave him alone.  Things get stuck in it and demand to be kept orderly and consistent.  When the puzzle pieces don&#8217;t fit right I can&#8217;t leave it alone until they get positioned right.  I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m just a bit shy of obsessive compulsive.  Some of the memory advantages, but retaining pretty good social skills.  Like most of the geeks in Silicon Valley&#8230; </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been around for more than 1/2 century now (God that looks scary) and in that time you accumulate some experiences.  I went out of my way to collect interesting and diverse ones (&#8220;This life is NOT a dress rehearsal, TAKE BIG BITES!&#8221;)  And was raised in a farm town by parents who made sure I was well connected with reality.</p>
<p>Yeah, plethora kind of sums it up&#8230;  At about 6 or 8 years of age one of my teachers said &#8220;no one can know everything&#8221; and I took it as a challenge ;-)  About 20 years later I had to admit they were right, but by then I&#8217;d learned you can know a lot <b>about almost</b>everything and that was good enough.  I like to read encyclopedias for fun.  Go figure.</p>
<p>Put these together and you get some areas that are known in detail, lots that are known somewhat, and most all of it kept neatly in order.  I also stay studiously away from the areas where I&#8217;m a complete idiot ;-)  (Don&#8217;t ever expect to hear anything from me about Opera, Ballet, almost all art and artists, African food, clothes fashions, and many others&#8230;)</p>
<p>Formal education includes a U.C. degree and a Community College teaching credential along with the education theory units needed for a lifetime credential when California was handing them out.  (Oh, and a Doctor of Divinity that cost me $20 ;-).  I can also put CDP after my name, but nobody every heard of it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m interested in just about everything. Cooking, survival skills, farming, medicine, history, languages, electronics &amp; computing, photography, recreational chemistry, geology, weather and how nuclear physics works.  I can reload my own ammo, grow food and prep it for the table, make explosives from scratch, just like I can make bread from scratch or make a radio from scratch (either tube or transistor), and have been known to knit and sew&#8230; including sewing up some animals that needed it. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been slightly blown up once, destroyed a couple of motorcycles, jumped out of an airplane a few times, piloted a glider &amp; landed it 8-), been scuba diving, overhauled a few cars and rebuilt one motorcycle (and a tractor with my Dad) and lived on a 27 foot sail boat for a year+ that I single handed.  I&#8217;ve helped build a family restaurant and made my own corporation.  I&#8217;m also a decent shot with guns &amp; bow, and like Karate.  I make my own beer and sometimes I&#8217;ve written stories and poems that folks tell me are pretty good.  I really like stock trading, probably because the demands are so high.</p>
<p>Can you tell that I was a Heinlein fan?  With redheads in the family?</p>
<p>Oh, and right now I&#8217;m unemployed.  Anyone need a slightly compulsive polymath to do, well anything interesting?</p>
<p>So who am I?  I wish I knew.  Maybe that&#8217;s what this life is all about&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: norah4you</title>
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		<dc:creator>norah4you</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hadn&#039;t it been for the fact, yes fact, that this been spoken by older scientists to be a possibility when ever the poles +/- change it&#039;s place, then I too would have been buffeled and worried. But as was said the other day by a scientist here, the breach isn&#039;t as dangerous as it sounds.

The last time this happened was 700.000 BP (Before Present). In one blogg here in Sweden an article from &#039;Ny Teknik&#039; was quoted in full. Article: http://hem.passagen.se/icca/NyTarkiv98/1498-polbyte.htm 

As said there the change started 150 years ago and computer models show that a change is to take place after a while every times this happens. 

So, not manmade. Happened many times before always before a polarchange. Please observe that change from +/- to the other DOESN&#039;T mean that the Earth change upside down. ONLY that + pol change to - pol and vice versa.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hadn&#8217;t it been for the fact, yes fact, that this been spoken by older scientists to be a possibility when ever the poles +/- change it&#8217;s place, then I too would have been buffeled and worried. But as was said the other day by a scientist here, the breach isn&#8217;t as dangerous as it sounds.</p>
<p>The last time this happened was 700.000 BP (Before Present). In one blogg here in Sweden an article from &#8216;Ny Teknik&#8217; was quoted in full. Article: <a href="http://hem.passagen.se/icca/NyTarkiv98/1498-polbyte.htm" rel="nofollow">http://hem.passagen.se/icca/NyTarkiv98/1498-polbyte.htm</a> </p>
<p>As said there the change started 150 years ago and computer models show that a change is to take place after a while every times this happens. </p>
<p>So, not manmade. Happened many times before always before a polarchange. Please observe that change from +/- to the other DOESN&#8217;T mean that the Earth change upside down. ONLY that + pol change to &#8211; pol and vice versa.</p>
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		<title>By: adonis49</title>
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		<dc:creator>adonis49</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are these changes man-made?  have we been excavating specific raw materials that are affecting the core iron rotation?</description>
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