On Thursday, 24 October 2013 10:46:08 UTC+1, Martin Brown wrote:

The sci.astro groups have gone the same way - basically the Usenet
groups there are infested with flat Earthers, Einstein deniers...

What's wrong with denying Einsdynamism, so called relativity and the restof it is almost incomprehensible, doesn't work and there are quite reasonable alternatives.

You do know that Newton's mechanics was based on perfect spheres don't you?
Well, since they aren't perfect spheres the losses and gains that required eindynamism in another century can quite readily be explained by the erratic behaviour of weather.

Had Fitzroy the access to today's marvels that you have he might even have conceded that the Lunarists of his day had something worth investigating.

There is no way to explain the run of this weeks' North Atlantic charts and the way it is going to change radically in the next few hours is there?

Or does the weather know that Lekima is failing. I bet no supercomputers can tell you why. All you have is "well that is the way it usually goes", statistics and mind boggling idiocracy.

Away with you and take Dawlish with you. I am sure you can find a cliff for him to play on, somewhere coastal.