Re: [Geology2] Fwd: Meteorite Impact May Have Triggered Largest Pulse Of Deccan Basalt Eruptions

Ben,

Lin and others here have carefully and painfully explained in very minute detail where your beliefs (because they are unproven as facts) fall short and how you could proceed.  While you acknowledge this, you fail to act on the guidance given you to come to a fruitful and successful discovery or learning.

This insistence on defying even the most basic of scientific premises about clear, logical analysis using acknowledged scientific principles is frankly frustrating.  You've been as successful here as anyone trying to prove the existence of Bigfoot, Yeti or the Loch Ness creature.  

It has been so frustratingly painful to wade through your repetitive heavily flawed analysis that you've been placed on moderation for many months, although you may not have noted it.  Moderators must review EVERY note of the moderated to allow it to pass.  In other lists I help manage, some never see the light of the Internet, er, day.  The moderators here have been, frankly, gracious in this regard because Lin held out hope for you (may still, I didn't ask).

Part of allowing you to continue was for the amusement value, long since expired.  Part of it was to attempt to see any growth, a hope nearly extinguished.

Lin is too polite to simply ban your butt from the list, most likely in the hopes that you can be reformed.  I hold no such allusions about you; your track record bears this out.  You like to argue, that much is plain, but your arguments shed no new light and are mostly fantastical beliefs.  This doesn't help your cause.

So I, in my most direct style, will explain the coming events for you, on this list.  Unless your future diatribes (being unsubstantiated claims based on nothing but your whimsy) cease AND should you fail to start applying true scientific methods of premise; analysis; (dis)proving the premise to a logical conclusion, NONE of your future hypothesis will EVER grace the pages of this list again.  You have been corrected, guided and gently nudged in the proper direction several time, now you're being publicly spanked in lieu of being banished. 

Short version:  Get with the program; do it the right way, or go away.  It's boring to watch someone beat their head on the floor, kick and scream like an infant and refuse to accept that it is improper behavior.

Lin is the list owner and may choose to keep you around for her own reasons.  Others of us are moderators and have been tolerant for Lin's sake.  Lin is nice... opinions vary on the rest of us but we TRY to be polite.  You have not, you refuse to accept and USE the advice given; you refuse to learn and grow.  That's rude and there has been enough of that.

This is your FINAL warning because if I see pointless drivel from you ever again here, *I* will ban you in a heartbeat and not even think twice about it.  You will have to feed your fantasies elsewhere, tin hat worn or not.

Bawling infants only cry because they are either hungry, scared, hurt or need a diaper changed.  You've been fed by excellent advice, don't appear hurt or scared so go change your diaper into big boy pants; do things in the traditional time honored and PROVEN fashion of research and study instead of tying random theories or fantasies into a cluster.  Or go find another list.

End of thread; back to reality and things that can be proven.

And my OT comment of the day: Well done Giants!  You, er, ROCK! (there it is now topical)

Rick, WA6NHC

iPad = small keypad = typos = sorry ;-)

On Oct 30, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Ben Fishler benfishler@yahoo.com [geology2] <geology2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Dear Lin,

Those are nice maps. But the hotspot map reflects the thinking of the current theory.

I sent an email on 1/30/2014 that detailed my reasons for believing that the Sunda trench was a transform fault that has mostly been changed into a convergent fault. This email also includes the rationale for Including Lake Toba as the site of one of the world's largest mantle plumes. I include this analysis in my new book, as well.

You say that there is no hotspot located below India. That was the point of my argument. There should be a hotspot there, or at least a hotspot located where it was 60 MYA when that hotspot emerged from underneath India's west coast. The maps at the end of Chapter 2.2 of my book detail how this slower moving hotspot has moved more slowly but in a similar direction as India during the past 60 million years.

You write about building on other people's work. I do that as is appropriate. In particular, in this area, I use the work of and cite Dr. Hetu Sheth and his detailed geological work on India. I have 138 footnote citations in my book.

However, when one is going into an entirely new direction, there is often scant work to cite. Who would Copernicus have cited?

The relief map of the Indian Ocean shows many undersea features, but it does not have "inarguable tracts in oceanic crust that clearly show the direction of India's movement," as far as I can tell. If there is more to this, I would like to read about it.

Regards,

Ben