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Kansas State Football / Re: Weird things from the Qatz/La Tech game
« on: September 19, 2015, 06:25:18 PM »
Cody Cook not being able to catch passes that hit him between the numbers but being able to make spectacular one-handed catches downfield.

Two amazing drops, two amazing catches. Really an odd game for old C-squared.

 :D

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: If the models are all wrong
« on: September 19, 2015, 05:48:57 PM »
So...what's the sinister end-game for scientists and liberals with their "studies" that correlate human activity with global warming? Answers from real climate change deniers only, please.

For scientists it's grant money. For politicians it's control. For "green" businesses it's profit and subsidies.

I'm failing to see how acquisition of grant money and businesses being profitable is sinister. You're going to have to explain the "political control" statement. Are you saying that politicians use the spectre of global warming to fear-monger, and thus extract some additional benefit?

I didn't use the word sinister. But I hope you would agree that skewing data and observations to fit a hypothesis is not good science.

As to your other point, I agree that both sides are susceptible to bias for money - I would posit to you that there is more money flowing from government (generally pro-AGW) than oil companies (generally anti). The point is that we shouldn't deny a legitimate debate exists. That's not science, and it doesn't comport with observed temperature data. (At least, data that's not constantly being "adjusted" by NOAA, NASA, etc.)

Re: what I have bolded...this is not surprising at all because oil and gas companies have little to gain by funding climate change research. It's akin to Phillip Morris funding medical studies about the long-term ramifications of smoking. Companies are only motivated to perform basic scientific research that can potentially increase their profit margin.

I was very curious as to what climate change deniers were pointing to in terms of scientific evidence, and it seems to be centered around air temperature. As a Ph.D. chemist, I need to stress that temperature is a really terrible way of quantifying heat. I know that sounds silly, but it's true. The reason for this is that different materials absorb heat to different extents. The heat capacity defines how much heat (measured in joules) it takes to raise the temperature of something 1 degree (Kelvin/Celsius). Of course, if you have more of something, it takes more heat to increase its temperature, and you can define this by the specific heat capacity - how many joules of heat is required to raise 1 gram of this material 1 degree. All that being said, the earth is getting "warmer" - but on this planet, it's the water, not the air, that acts as the major heat sink. However, it takes ~4X as many joules to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree as it does to raise 1 gram of air 1 degree.

The bottom line is that the heat being trapped by the greenhouse effect doesn't stay in the atmosphere. Most of it (~90%) gets transferred rather efficiently to the oceans, where temperature increases more slowly. Both ocean and atmosphere temperatures seem insignificant (right now) due to the sheer size of both bodies (~5e21 g of air and ~1e24 g of water) coupled with the unequal distribution of heat and water's resistance to temperature increases, but the increase in heat content in the ocean paints a more vivid picture:

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"The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17e22 Joules over the last 30 years.  That is so much energy it is equivalent to exploding a Hiroshima bomb every second in the ocean for thirty years.
Source



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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: If the models are all wrong
« on: September 19, 2015, 12:56:16 PM »
I mean, oil and natural gas producers make huge profits and they receive subsidies from the government. Why is it bad if wind and solar companies are doing the same thing?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: If the models are all wrong
« on: September 19, 2015, 10:17:27 AM »
So...what's the sinister end-game for scientists and liberals with their "studies" that correlate human activity with global warming? Answers from real climate change deniers only, please.

For scientists it's grant money. For politicians it's control. For "green" businesses it's profit and subsidies.

I'm failing to see how acquisition of grant money and businesses being profitable is sinister. You're going to have to explain the "political control" statement. Are you saying that politicians use the spectre of global warming to fear-monger, and thus extract some additional benefit?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: If the models are all wrong
« on: September 19, 2015, 08:25:28 AM »
So...what's the sinister end-game for scientists and liberals with their "studies" that correlate human activity with global warming? Answers from real climate change deniers only, please.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 14, 2015, 11:24:16 PM »
i bet trump LOVES anal. you bang a couple penthouse pets and thats sure to happen.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Winston Dimel
« on: September 13, 2015, 01:46:49 PM »
it speaks volumes about how derpy our WRs are when winston dimel is our leading receiver.

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Kansas State Football / Re: Likes/Not Likes
« on: September 12, 2015, 05:40:37 PM »

fan chingon and i were wondering about the following in chat:

waters threw moonshot bombs and huebner throws lazer beam bombs.  which is preferable?  both are aesthetically pleasing.

I think it depends if you have a Tyler Lockett. I think moon shots would be not so good with these WRs.

our WRs have such terrible hands. maybe moonshotz would land softer?

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Days America Cried.
« on: September 12, 2015, 12:21:21 AM »

Lincoln's assassination
Martin Luther King's assassination

I imagine there were lots of Americans that were very pleased with both of these events.

Don't think so weirdoIseeeverythingwithracismglassesbecauseofmyweirdoguilt guy.

Lincoln was absolutely vilified in his own day. People think Obama has it bad now - Lincoln had it like 10X worse.






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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Days America Cried.
« on: September 11, 2015, 10:12:15 PM »

Lincoln's assassination
Martin Luther King's assassination

I imagine there were lots of Americans that were very pleased with both of these events.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 09:59:45 PM »
You were painting with a much broader brush earlier Trey.   That's okay, typical.

yep, i'm just a typical ProgLib marching in lockstep with all my lemming brethren, dax. no need to listen to me.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 09:36:05 PM »
i never said you did like him. i read the part where you said you didn't agree with much of the stuff he says. but surely you can understand that it's not fair to accuse people of being close-minded when the opinions in question don't hold much merit.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 09:16:47 PM »
there's a funny thing about the "observations" of people wearing blinders.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 08:35:55 PM »
 :lol:

i'm illuminating the mystery of "ProgLib closed-mindedness" regarding Trump for you, dax. Most reasonable people have already dismissed him as a serious candidate because the things he says are rough ridin' crazy.

you're welcome for the explanation.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 08:26:16 PM »
this isn't binary, dax - being ok with something and melting down about it aren't the only two options.

While I don't agree with much of what Trump says, it really has been a study in how closed minded most ProgLibs are . . . if you're not in lockstep with ProgLib ideals, they pretty much don't want to hear it.   But hey, everybody else . . . keep an open mind.


this is the single most laughable thing i think you've ever typed on this blog. "hey everybody, the racist guy who wants to bomb oil fields and thinks of women as brainless sex receptacles has something important to say! listen up!"

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 08:06:02 PM »
Do you really believe that Trump actually believes that?  LOL

i don't know what the eff he believes. you don't either, so don't act like you do. maybe at one point in time the real trump was different from the trump persona that he created, but i think that his persona has become so bloated that it's consumed him completely.


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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 10, 2015, 07:53:17 PM »
I don't think outraged is the word I'd use Dax. Maybe, like, dumbfounded. And that goes for moderates as well.

Many are outraged and meltdown at every non PC rough ridin' insane thing Trump says.

mexicans are all criminals and rapists and their government is sending them here
let's build a 1900 mile long wall and make Mexico pay for it.
lets bomb all the oil fields in Iraq and Syria and then just give them to major oil companies

any other rough ridin' insanity that i forgot?

never mind the fact that he's been super vague about healthcare reform, education, tax reform and all the other issues that actually matter.




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why are you touching yourself while staring at women, reno? that's super pervy.

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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Re: The Trump Candidacy
« on: September 08, 2015, 11:18:50 PM »

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Kansas State Football / Re: Football Recruiting Thread
« on: September 08, 2015, 06:14:16 PM »
this kid is a steal as a walk-on

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Kansas State Football / Re: Greatest Secondary Ever
« on: September 06, 2015, 11:42:41 AM »
I was thinking maybe dislocated shoulder for Barnett.
That's worst case scenario. I'm holding out hope that it was just a stinger.

I think it was a stinger. When you dislocate your shoulder, your arm just dangles. He had his arm bent 90 degrees as he came off the field.

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Kansas State Football / Re: WRs are derpy
« on: September 05, 2015, 08:29:16 PM »
derp burton

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Kansas State Football / Re: Depth Chart
« on: September 02, 2015, 09:58:24 PM »
Da'Marrio is a walk on

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@Jbanks_1: The plan is just to get better everyday.




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Kansas State Football / Re: KstateHD.TV
« on: August 30, 2015, 03:26:55 PM »
Re-upped. The website seems to be completely different now, and much much more limited, though maybe I'm doing it wrong. Used to be tons and tons of back content so I could go watch random games against like Kent State from 2011. Does anyone know if it's possible to access all that content from seasons past? The only game replays I can find are from last year but that's just not enough for this die-hard qat. Anyone have any insight on this?

http://www.kstatesports.com/schedule-list#/2015-08-23

Pick your sport, your season and go from there.

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