The comet thread over at ISF is actually very interesting from the standpoint of psychology.
Nobody really knows exactly what all comets might be made of, what range of elements they might include, etc. We can tell something about the composition of some comets of course, at least to some degree. Whether that means that all comets are "dirty snowballs" is anyone's guess. It is probably not even likely to start with. Asteroids tend to span a wide range of different elemental compositions. Comets probably do too.
Instead of keeping the conversation on topic, and keeping the conversation civil however, the EU/PC "hater posse" over at ISF constantly engages themselves in personal attacks, ad-homs, and name calling. While RC might be the primary instigator of a lot of the trash talk, he's apparently got a superhater-sidekick these days. EU/PC hater RC apparently enjoys a Robin-like figure in JonesDave116. Here's just a few choice word samplings from his last few hater posts:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/fo ... count=3471
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JonesDave116:
....idiot....dense....uneducated pillocks like you....Grow up; get an education.....woo...Try to lern scienz. Yes?....
....They do not understand basic science......electric comet' woo.....The bloke is obviously scientifically illiterate.......he fails it......cretin......They were crap at science at school....cretin.....these idiots.....scientifically illiterate 'electric universe' cult.....IMHO anybody that believes that garbage should be removed from the gene pool. However, that is only an opinion.
Removed from the gene pool? You advocate violence because others don't share your beliefs about comets? How nice.
Well JD, if you're attempting to play the role of the "sleazy personal attack dog" like RC, you're learning how to play that disgusting role quite nicely. You've got the whole mob mentality thing down pat, and you've learned from RC how to really "pack in the ad-homs" in every post just like a EU/PC hater pro.
Now all you need to do is explain why your solar and cosmology models *do not* work in the lab, whereas EU/PC models work perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58-CfVrsN4
Now of course I have no real "dog in the fight" with comet composition debates since I prefer Birkeland's cathode solar model over Jergen's (Thornhill/Scott's) anode solar model, and I really don't care one iota about comet compositions to be honest. It is however at least interesting from the standpoint of psychology to watch the mainstream's reaction to different beliefs.
They just ignore the fact that their LCDM cult has wasted *BILLIONS* of dollars on multiple dark matter snipe hunts which were all based on bad baryonic mass estimates of distant galaxies. All they can think to discuss and worry about is one comet model from EU/PC theory, while condemning the whole EU/PC cosmology community a 'cult'.
They just ignore that fact that while every aspect of EU/PC theory can be empirically tested in the lab, including various comet theories, they won't be bothered to actually do any exhaustive laboratory testing of comet composition theories because they've already blown their wad on unproductive snipe hunts and they steadfastly refuse to admit any errors at all in their cosmology model.
They just ignore the fact that to even begin to hold "belief" in LCDM one has to suspend logic entirely. One has to begin the indoctrination into the LCDM cult by *assuming* (hold on faith) that even though photons in the lab lose momentum to the plasma medium as they traverse the medium, photons in "space' are magic. Unlike their boring and ordinary laboratory counterparts, photons in space magically weave and dodge their way around every EM and temperature gradient, every dust particle and every plasma particle in spacetime to arrive on Earth without a *shred* of cosmological redshift caused by ordinary scattering in plasma.
They just ignore the fact that to hold belief, and pledge allegiance in the LCDM cultm one also has to begin with holding "blind faith" in the claim that "space expansion" is a real and actual empirical cause of photon redshift without a shred of lab support for that claim, now or ever in the future.
They forget about the fact that to hold belief in the holy LCMD dogma one also has to hold belief in the great "inflation" genie, and dogmatically assert that 95 percent of the universe is composed of invisible stuff that amounts to nothing more than placeholder terms for human ignorance.
We must forget all those problems with LCMD, and abandon empirical physics for the LCMD cult, or face the wrath of the empirical physics hater cult as they personally attack and verbally abuse the messengers of empirical physics with a vengeance.
JD, you and RC are two bit personal attack bullies. You can't handle an honest scientific debate so you simply *cheat*. Proud of yourselves?