tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post6554674620506007793..comments2024-03-19T00:16:41.405-07:00Comments on The Galloping Beaver: This found its way into a scientific journalDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-8466840655530417182010-09-22T21:48:38.018-07:002010-09-22T21:48:38.018-07:00polygonic, it would required some very serious sur...polygonic, it would required some very serious surface divergence in one location, some massive surface convergence in precisely another and a remarkable set of tides occuring at exactly the same time. Of course we have the problem of the upper air from one system shredding the other due to proximity. <br /><br />Absolutely impossible? No. Probable? Hardly.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-4527865678427194712010-09-22T11:16:14.412-07:002010-09-22T11:16:14.412-07:00"Pardon me, is that science, or are you flaun..."Pardon me, is that science, or are you flaunting your origin myth?"<br /><br />I think the paper is grossly misframed and probably in the wrong journal. If it had been framed as an archaeological argument looking at descriptions of weather events in major historical texts, and not blantantly shouting "Exodus" as an assumption, then perhaps it might have had some value.<br /><Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-2500728466233482502010-09-22T09:58:13.981-07:002010-09-22T09:58:13.981-07:00Bizarre pseudo-science trying to lend some credenc...Bizarre pseudo-science trying to lend some credence to mythology, is it? Great stuff. We need more of it.<br /><br />For a visualisation of what wind splitting a sea might look like, visit the BBC at:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11383620<br /><br />I'm curious what hurricane force is required (and at what angle?) to separate a SEA into two bits - and how Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com