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To: Godzilla
We admit we are amateurs. I do not believe we have done anything that is tinfoil hat BS.

I believe you are just hostile for no good reason.

53 posted on 06/13/2010 8:36:03 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn
We admit we are amateurs. I do not believe we have done anything that is tinfoil hat BS.
I believe you are just hostile for no good reason.

Then let me try to explain it to you one more time. Your 'interpretations' of the data were flawed and when that was pointed out - the common gist of the reply was that the 'experts' (USGS and U of Utah) were clueless and that your prognostication was the correct one. When you earlier this thread said - Oh look at all the activity in Yellowstone just the past week - I posted the plot of earthquake activtivity in the yellowstone region for that past week - with only a half dozen mag 1 quakes. Clearly, as I noted, the seismograph you linked also records quakes around the world, so that just looking at ONE seismograph one cannot relate to the activity in the area. When I asked if YOU can interpret that data, you just linked me to a website CREATED by those very same experts who monitor geologic activity in the park. That shows me right there that you have a long way to go. Then to further extrapolate that an eruption in the park is about to occur (based upon the earth quake swarm of 6 months ago) or that the activity of the past week would result in an 'off-gassing' event - well what more can I say about that analysis. Is it supported by the additional data the 'experts' have on hand - no it is not, not even remotely.

I get critical because this is just bogus (doesn't even reach the level of 'bad') science. And I, as a professional geologist, am told "I" don't know what I am talking about and that I am "biased".

Earth science if extremely interesting, that is why I went into the field as a career. Even 'amateurs' can enjoy it, and the YS swarm was an interesting event - but that is all it was, one of many swarms that have been recorded every year. To extrapolate that into an impending eruption and a sky is falling scenario (remember the thread title) spreads false notions knee jerk reactions among those who do not know or understand what is being observed.

I attempted to point those things out in an effort to educate and inform, as I have done here and else where. I become "hostile" when bad science is bantered about as good science and expert interpretation dissed because it it "biased". Well, then just have a good day.

54 posted on 06/14/2010 9:00:31 AM PDT by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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