Alan's Psychadelic Earthquake Breakfast

From: patch 3 Aug 2012 22:30
To: Monsoir (PILOTDAN) 34 of 392
I don't know about insane. It's more that he's incapable of answering a direct question with a clear answer. He's just another one of those people that rambles on about something, with plenty of diversions via irrelevant half-sentences, and expects everyone else to understand. They seem to come through here every now and then.
From: Monsoir (PILOTDAN) 4 Aug 2012 07:42
To: patch 35 of 392
It's the usual conspiracy nut nonsense and it lets them continue the "Hah, I know something those sheep don't" bullshit.
EDITED: 4 Aug 2012 07:43 by PILOTDAN
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 4 Aug 2012 07:47
To: patch 36 of 392
I believe he's saying that the Jews, fleeing an atlantis disaster, went on to become the secret world government (and may or may not be human) who are responsible for Sept. 11 and stuff. And that countries around the world move tectonic plates with some sort of beams.

Which is pretty insane. Pleasantly so, aside from the antisemitic stuff.
From: patch 4 Aug 2012 08:14
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 37 of 392

It's a weird thing. As soon as I read the words Jew or Zion (or some variant of them) in that kind of posting, my brain immediately switches off and it's a massive struggle just to read the rest of it. Rants that don't involve those words are much less of a hassle to read.

 

Maybe it's brain control and that's... No. That's too easy. Come up with your own punchline involving Atlantis, heat rays and aeroplanes.

From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 4 Aug 2012 08:16
To: patch 38 of 392
Jew.
From: patch 4 Aug 2012 08:29
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 39 of 392
<drools>
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From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 11:52
To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) 41 of 392
Olympics
weird
looking
?
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 4 Aug 2012 12:47
To: Al JunioR (53NORTH) 42 of 392
Please show me where Beijing admitted this.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 12:52
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 43 of 392
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 12:58
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 44 of 392
The work of the Office is largely aimed at hailstorm prevention or making rain to end droughts;
...
Their technology was also used to create snow on New Year's Day in 1997.
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they were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics are free of rain
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Other proposed future uses for induced precipitation include lowering temperatures in summer, in hopes of reducing electricity consumption.
EDITED: 4 Aug 2012 12:59 by BOUGHTONP
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 4 Aug 2012 12:58
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 45 of 392
That's cloud seeding. That's... mild tampering with the weather.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 13:04
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 46 of 392
So you're saying that making sure clouds rain before/after a specific area is not controlling the weather for that area?

Or are you just disappointed because it's not total control, and you wanted to find out they had a magic machine that could muster up a thunderstorm just by pulling a lever?
From: Monsoir (PILOTDAN) 4 Aug 2012 13:16
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 47 of 392
It's semantics, but I wouldn't really consider faffing around with clouds isn't really the same as making changes to a huge weather system. It's kind of like calling a bit of gardening terraforming.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 4 Aug 2012 13:19
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 48 of 392
What Dan said. 53 was implying a more profound weather control, talking about cloud systems over Island influencing weather in London.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 13:40
To: Monsoir (PILOTDAN) 49 of 392
The phrase "total control" (etc) exists because simply "control" itself is NOT defined as being absolute, or even significant.

Control is specifically described as "power to influence or guide" and "a means of limitation", and thus faffing with clouds is well within the acceptable description of "controlling the weather", because the weather was influenced and limited by not raining over the designated area.

Nobody made any claims about being in total control of huge weather systems.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 13:41
To: Drew (X3N0PH0N) 50 of 392
Was he? You're reading that the "massive weird" system (no mention of clouds) is being claimed to be man-made because you want to believe that (or at least believe that he believes it).

quote:
Beijing admitted it was controlling the weather for their Olympics, but all we see is a strange system over Eire, luckily keeping the weather reasonable for ours.

See?

You've already complained that he's acting too much like a fortune teller or astrologer, with wishy washy statements that don't mean anything, but now you're trying to pin down those statements by injecting them with your own meaning, instead of taking them at face value.
EDITED: 4 Aug 2012 13:41 by BOUGHTONP
From: Manthorp 4 Aug 2012 13:48
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 51 of 392
Presumably owning a hat is low level weather control.
From: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 4 Aug 2012 13:54
To: Manthorp 52 of 392
Especially one lined with tin or lead. :)
From: Manthorp 4 Aug 2012 14:03
To: Peter (BOUGHTONP) 53 of 392
As worn by every well-dressed Teher.