> Because a fellow admin started this thread I'll let him police it,

One day I'll learn.
If everyone stays away from mentioning people who are politicians,
were politicians or act like politicians and/or anyone who has had an
oil tanker named after them and also from anything that looking with
eyes mostly shut may LOOK like politics (eg NO mentions of the capital
of Denmark PLEASE ** !!!) then we may be able to actually do a little
science. Maybe.

What I HOPED was that something that seemed so potenmtially
ex[planatory may be of interest to the technically enchanted. The 179
(I think it was) year cycle aligning with previous periods which were
recorded as historically cold (at least in some places in the world)
is most interesting

Re

> but
> my interpretation of the rules
> (http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist) strongly suggests that
> bringing up Al Gore is not allowed in a Global Warming thread, for
> obvious reasons. It is something worth remembering, since we have been
> down this road before, and should know what triggers to avoid in order
> to keep discussion on a technical footing.

Agree
It's specifically covered in the FAQ (or one of them).
Try and ignore the "may rate an occasional mention" part :-)

Viz:

[EE] The doing of EE that you can do yourself. Power stations go into
TECH unless it's a power station that you can build. So too eg
Magnetohydrodynamics etc. Windmill alternators and related systems and
alternate energy at the doing level go into EE. Windfarms into TECH.
etc

[TECH] About technology, Engineering other than EE, science hard
stuff. NOT the philosophy of science in any depth. New discoveries in
QM, cosmology etc are fine. Almost anything that gets a long thread
that diverges can probably evolve into OT once people know it exists.
Those who care can follow it. eg Global Warming is TECH at the latest
discoveries level but not discussions of "An inconvenient truth" or
"The great global warming swindle" etc. This may rate an occasional
mention in TECH but long ramblings can go to OT.

[OT] This label is for posts that are completely off the topic of
engineering/technology. The only things we don't ever want to see are
religious/metaphysical, sex, hate, or political messages.


 Russell

* If Nope9 finds an adequately creative way of bypassing this request
we could probably find an equally creative way of responding :-). eg
maybe requiring his login to the list to invoved writing "I must not
mention the ..." 100 times (cut and paste detection results in 1 week
automatic ban. Any Mailman gurus here ... ? :-) ).

** Includes discussion of eponymously titled QM theories.

PS: Lest there be any doubt - I consider Nope9 and all his
incarnations a fine fellow and valued list member - but I know how he
likes trying things on just for fun. Fun sometimes needs to be
anticipated :-)






> > > This paper http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/ics2007/pdf/
> > > ICS176.pdf
> > > explains the idea.
> > > And this page (if you'll excuse the site, which will annoy some and
> > > cheer
> > > others http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/12/there_are_cold.html
> > > gives a brief introduction.
> > > This discussion gives it both support and a rough time
> > > http://www.bautforum.com/against-mainstream/64934-rhodes-fairbridge-solar-jerk.html
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