Now there's some science with sense

This quote from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi about sums up most of the junk science that we're fed by both the politically correct and the extremes at the other end of the spectrum. I just had to laugh at how applicable it is to so much of what we're told to believe today.

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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Life on the Mississippi

That's great! It's been so tough since we ran out of oil in 1976.

(quoted from post at 13:25:24 01/09/16) That's great! It's been so tough since we ran out of oil in 1976.

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and no one will be left to care by 2036, because according to the Al crowd, the last human on Earth will have disappeared.

Thank you for posting. I copied it and saved it.
Richard in NW SC

I love it Randy!

Does that include the oxbow bends that were removed by the Corp. of Engineers?

While this was posted as a joke.

If only you guys knew how much the Corp has screwed up the Mississippi river delta you would be appalled.

Biting my tongue now.

Now you're asking legitimate questions that might challenge beliefs. In todays world of "politically correct" science,you're not supposed to do that.

John the corps is the gestapo! I'll bite my tongue too.

rrlund

One of my quotes around this area is

"That a bit of data can ruin a whole heap of pontification"

Bu I didn't count on "climate science"!

Einstein said "Common sense is that band of prejudices laid down in the mind before the age of 18."

I hope I remember that in case in my next life I have to come back here and become a farmer and have to buy property. Thanks for the precious pearl of information.....made my day....sort of....