Sad news for Neal Adams

[james_davis_nicoll]

Latest results from NASA contradict Adams' beloved expanding Earth model.

Comments

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

(monotone)I am shocked to learn that someone who doesn't know what he's talking about was proven to be wrong.(/monotone)

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

And on the internet, no less!

[seawasp]

Isn't that supposed to be "Shocked, SHOCKED"?

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Nah, that would require emphasis that a monotone response simply doesn't allow.

[http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/]

Maybe use a <blink> tag?

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

<permablink>!

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[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I initially missed the 'Neal' in your title, and thought you were talking about Scott Adams, who also had an expanding Earth model*.

*although, being Scott Adams, he inevitably hid behind the "I'm just throwing this out there to make you think, if it turns out to be self-evident garbage then I never believed it" that he loves so much.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Hadn't realized Scott Adams pushed an expanding Earth model. Wasn't surprised, but hadn't realized either.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

In one of his books, he suggested that maybe gravity doesn't exist and everything in the universe is expanding, so it just appears like things are pulled towards one another.

(Debunking this explanation is left as an exercise for the reader.)

[runningbadger.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Was that the same book where he said in the foreword he'd put in a mix of made-up nonsense and Things Physicists Really Believe, and anyone who really knew their stuff would know which was which? (Unless, of course, it turned out that he misunderstood Real Science badly enough to garble the stuff which was meant to be accurate)

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

It was The Dilbert Future. I don't recall the foreword, but that bit was in the chapter where he predicted that "the theory of evolution would be disproved in our lifetime".

[runningbadger.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

I was thinking of God's Debris.

I gave The Dilbert Future to my father as a Christmas present. I think I might have stolen it back to protect his sanity when I discovered what a pile of garbage the last chapter was.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Hm, sounds like he'd started weaseling pre-emptively for GD?

[blindgeoff.livejournal.com]

I followed the 2nd link... I think I've had my brain permanently damaged by Teh Stooop!d.

Thanks!

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Yeah? I fiddled with the idea that Earth was expanding too - when I was about ten. After thinking about accelerating expansion as a plausible substitute for gravity, I decided the whole thing didn't really work out and this "gravity" force fit better. But, hey, I was a kid; what's Adams' excuse?