273 hits

I happen to be friends with the seniormost producer of the show, and have asked her about the people they have on. Her reply to me was the question, “Were you entertained?” This show isn’t about disseminating facts, but entertainment. So, Dave, you hit it right on the head! C2C’s main function is to entertain its listeners, without being judgmental about its content. The hosts (George Noory, Art Bell, and sometimes Ian Punnitt) don’t have to believe what is aired, but they don’t express disbelief either. All we can do is pity the folks that believe all that is on.

The problem is that many people accept what is presented on Coast To Coast AM as the literal truth. I happen to believe that an informed electorate capable of critical thinking is vital to the well-being of a modern democracy.

Dave Mitsky

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“Noory also laps up all the ET, ghost, shadow people, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and other assorted nonsense without reservation. I must admit I find C2C rather entertaining a lot of time, comic relief as it were.”

I happen to be friends with the seniormost producer of the show, and have asked her about the people they have on. Her reply to me was the question, “Were you entertained?” This show isn’t about disseminating facts, but entertainment. So, Dave, you hit it right on the head! C2C’s main function is to entertain its listeners, without being judgmental about its content. The hosts (George Noory, Art Bell, and sometimes Ian Punnitt) don’t have to believe what is aired, but they don’t express disbelief either. All we can do is pity the folks that believe all that is on.

“angle grinder” + papaya + sex returns only 302 hits!

This is not to say that the new observations prove the X-wind model. That would require isotopic measurements, which I think are forthcoming.

- Luke

+chainsaw +pineapple +sex

or another:

+”arc welder” +mango +sex

The one with the lowest number of hits wins, like golf.

Those particular examples return 42,400 and 803 hits respectively. So forsterite juxtaposed with head lice doesn’t surprise me at all

I don’t get to hear that program all that often as I am on the east coast, so when it comes on, I’m (usually) asleep.

One night, they were discussing this one time traveler fellow, John Titor, who had come back through time from the 2030s or 2040s to various points in our recent history… the thing that caught my attention was that he had apparently traveled to 1970-something to pick up an old IBM computer that had “special characteristics.”

Well, I was on the road at the time, so this intrigued me… computers are, after all, my specialty, and I know a little bit about computer history. Somebody from the future coming back to 1970-something, of all times, to grab computer components seemed a little fishy to me (and then traveling to 2002 or whenever to talk about it was a dead giveaway).

I ended up finding a John Titor hoax post on Livejournal, and the poster was discussing the economics of the situation. A lot of people (who totally fail to understand even basic economics) were ragging on him, but the post was old, so I wasn’t going to update it with my angle unless there were recent comments. Being that there were, I added my take: http://community.livejournal.com/hoaxes/90359.html?thread=667127 (the comment located below is my debunking of this Titor fellow).

OK, enough O/T stuff. Maybe, one day, I’ll have something to say about astronomy.

I just checked out the BA’s page debunking James McKanney. While very nicely written overall, the fourth paragraph says that an object’s spectrum depends “on its temperature and what its made of.” That second its should have an apostrophe, naturally.

Noory also laps up all the ET, ghost, shadow people, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and other assorted nonsense without reservation. I must admit I find C2C rather entertaining a lot of time, comic relief as it were.

“Noory is known for his mild-mannered interviewing style and his willingness to air callers with claims of alien abductions, near-death experiences, and other paranormal topics. In the past, he has made some unusual claims on his show. For example, on his March 10-11, 2006 show, he claimed that he was reincarnated in the 22nd century as Dexter Monterrey, a time traveller that hosted the last hour of Coast to Coast that night. He has also claimed that when he broadcasts his show from St. Louis, he broadcasts from a dark cave in the middle of nowhere. Regular listeners who are familiar with the show assert that this is Noory’s tongue-in-cheek sense of humor; however, he often makes such claims in a deadpan manner that makes it difficult to determine if he is serious.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Noory

Recursion is everywhere.

It’s just great to know we have pieces of comets down here now.

I’m still awed over what they’re learning.