I just had to use the phrase "This is not a matter of belief, it is physics!" Guess who at?

[AlienGirl]

Guess who I had to take down by pointing out that "You believe what you believe, I'll believe what I believe" is not valid in the discussion of whether the Giant Impact Theory of the Moon's formation is viable?

Tucker

[The Traveler]

1. I dunno

Tell me tell me tell me!
:bounce:

[AlienGirl]

2. Hint: He owns uranium...

[Left Is Write]

3. He doesn't own MY anium!

:P

[Richard Steele]

4. ???????

After that hint, I'm clueless. Well, MORE clueless.

[AlienGirl]

6. Another hint: He has a Frequent Flyer card.

[The Traveler]

9. Now I'm really worried

He owns someone's anium and flies around with it a lot?

:shrug:

[AlienGirl]

14. He doesn't fly with anium, but he wants a corn snake.

[The Traveler]

19. Lost

Completely lost am I.

You have befuddled me, AlienGirl. But I like ya anyway! :)

[AlienGirl]

20. Hehehe! He also had a TV show back in the 90s and is a DUer.

[The Traveler]

22. Going back to the Loser thread

:)

I still feel completely clueless, a feeling I should be comfortable with by now!

[AlienGirl]

24. Most people don't know him, because he only posts in the summer.

[The Traveler]

25. May I be so bold as to

ask in what context belief and physics were discussed?

[AlienGirl]

27. He was spinning a line of BS about how the Moon was formed

Trying to tell me that if a planetoid had crashed into Earth's ocean, it would have left a bare spot because the water would have gone into space, and since Pangaea was the only continent, the planetoid-impact theory can't be true.

Tucker

[The Traveler]

31. Ah.

Perhaps he needs a review of basic properties of fluids? Besides ... I thought the theory held that the impact happened very early in the geological history of the earth, possibly before ocean formation. But I haven't kept up with the latest thinking on this subject.

:shrug:

[AlienGirl]

32. So then after he said that BS...

I told him why it wouldn't work that way, and he disagreed, and then said in a really condescending way, "Well, you believe what you believe, and I'll believe what I believe."

Tucker

[The Traveler]

33. Thus ya had to

lay the smackdown on him. Gotcha.

[AlienGirl]

35. Exactly!

[The Traveler]

37. Obviously

you are interested in matters astronomical. (That's sexy, BTW.) Do you "put your money" on the impact theory, or are you just unwilling to dismiss it without more compelling evidence?

[AlienGirl]

39. Unwilling to dismiss it, particularly on the say-so of an eleven-year-old!

[The Traveler]

41. 11 year old?

And had his own show? Back then? Wow. Precocious tot.

Oh ... you were referring to emotional age, perhaps??

:evilgrin:

[AlienGirl]

42. He wanted a TV show for his third birthday.

Public Access cable...

[The Traveler]

45. You kid the Traveler!

You're kidding, right? Talk about precocious!

:rofl:

[AlienGirl]

47. My kid Alien Spawn! He and his little brother are amazing.

[The Traveler]

49. Ya got me!

:rofl:

I bet you have an interesting parental experience!

[AlienGirl]

50. Absolutely fascinating! My younger son (age 8) told me this today:

"In the future there were Nazis including Hitler coming out of their graves and dancing like 'Uh uh uh uh' and it was the Rebels vs the Empire, then they went back to 2001 and they made the cars run on sugar and oil for some reason. And then if anybody sniffed it two times, they'd do the cha-cha, but if they sniffed it five times they'd go ballistic."

It is the plot of a story he is wrtiting, which I guess is being influenced by a book he read about WWII.

Tucker

[The Traveler]

51. That's freakin' brilliant

He should be writing for "Masters of Science Fiction" or something!

[AlienGirl]

52. I'm pretty sure he comes back in time to produce 12 Oz. Mouse and Metalocalypse.

[The Traveler]

53. Fear the Metalocalypse

and the Rupture. (Ouch!)

I really gotta get some sleep. Thanks for the sharing the fun!

Trav

[pokerfan]

54. Pangaea is only the most recent supercontinent

and existed about 250 MYA experts believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent#Incomplete_list_of_supercontinents

As far as the creation of the moon goes, the giant impact theory is pretty much universally accepted by the experts and that's good enough for me. If the theory has to change in light of new evidence, then I'm cool with that too.

The fundies just want to say g-d did it and then stop thinking.

[ForrestGump]

8. Kim Il Jong?

Did you also ask him how he gets his hair to do that? Is it faith? 'cos it sure don't seem like physics... :D

[AlienGirl]

10. Nope, good guess though!

Shorter than Kim Il Jong. And with shorter hair.

Tucker

[Little Wing]

5. Stephen Hawking

I'd never believe that

[AlienGirl]

7. Nope.

[everythingsxen]

11. I know who, but I will let others keep guessing

:)

[AlienGirl]

15. I know you know who! Spooky!

[everythingsxen]

34. Buck!

[AlienGirl]

36. What the buck?

[everythingsxen]

38. Buck Choy!

:o

[AlienGirl]

40. Buck Rogers!

My mom says Hi!

[everythingsxen]

43. Buckminster Fuller!

I say hi back!

[AlienGirl]

44. Buckin' A!

[everythingsxen]

46. One, Two.... BUCKLE my shoe!

:D

[AlienGirl]

48. Buck, buck, Zoopals! Squawk, squawk, Zoopals! Shred, shred, Zoopals!

[chknltl]

12. Marvin The Martian?

Well he does fly around a lot and he has that illudium-p38 stuff and I suspect he has no hair at all which is why he wears a helmet with hair on it. (lotsa guys do that ya know...just watch the crowd shots at any NFL game)

[AlienGirl]

13. Very, very close!

Another clue: His name is gonna be in the paper this week.

Tucker

[Richard Steele]

16. Seth Green has uranium? Holy Crap!

The things I learn at DU!

[AlienGirl]

17. Who's Seth Green?

[chknltl]

21. Marvin Harrison?????

...say it isn't so...puh-leese say it isn't so...I'm rootin for the Colts here lass... we need Marvin, we really need Marvin!

[AlienGirl]

23. Naw, he isn't named Marvin; but he does have an 'otherworldly' username!

[AlienGirl]

18. Another clue: he famously said, "If snow were pigs, it would be blizzarding pigs!"

[Bucky]

26. Sounds like Willard Scott. I had no idea he was a creationist, tho.

I mean, how can you work with Bryant Gumbel for 10 years and still believe there's a God?

[chknltl]

28. Steven Colbert???!!!! He posts here?????

KEWL

[AlienGirl]

29. Not that famous! lol

[chknltl]

30. darn nt