Recent content by SkinWalker

You mean a giant leviathan living in a loch that cannot support it with enough biomass for food, much less the twenty or so in a breeding population that would be the minimum needed to allow the species to survive for many generations? I'd say that would make it paranormal. A normal beast of...

As I understand "paranormal" in the context we are discussing, it is that which is outside the established norm of science. That is to say outside the bounds of physics, testable, reproducible, able to predict results of hypotheses, etc. As to alleged creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster...

As I see it, the only evidence that exists is that some so-called psychics will get "hits." The fact that, to date (as far as I know), there has been no substantiated claim of any "hits" being frequent enough to rule out random probability. Though it was my word first, "luck" was perhaps a...

Considering the shear number of "psychics" and their "predictions," it's little wonder that some of them will get significantly lucky.

For a place to upload your original artwork (photographs, photoshop creations, etc.) try http://www.deviantart.com. Check some of the catagories they have and browse a few of the ones that you are interested in yourself... I'll warn you, you will never browse the entire community! Not a...

Actually, I think the poll is a bit incomplete in its choices... so I clicked the "bannana" choice... it's about as likely as "god created us." I take it back. It's more likely than the god answer. I've seen a bannana ;) I think you should have included a choice that said something about...

I always found liquifaction to be one of the more interesting features of earthquakes. You can see this effect with other sediments of various particulate size, though, intuitively, sand would seem to be the easiest to be affected. I've seen the effect (not first hand, thankfully) around...

If by "Earth crustal displacement" you are talking about sudden, massive shifts in the Earth's crust due to pole shifts (which appears to be a current and popular idea among some New Agers), there simply isn't any geologic evidence to support it that I've seen. Pole shifts are relatively common...

So, if I believe Mount Everest to be 29,035 feet above sea level, would that be an irrational belief? I've never been to Mount Everest. I've never measured it. Yet, I fully believe that to be the correct measurement to the nearest 5 feet.

If we are to believe http://www.cuba.cu/ciencia/citma/ama/museo/imagen/morfo.gif , and I see no reason not to, then the "Mega" site is on the slope of a draw, which, in turn, begins at the base of a large hill or small mountain. This hill/mountain has a fault. According to I-V's data...

Good question. That doesn't make him infallible. Lots of symmetry in these images: http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/images/basalt15.jpg http://massimolupidi.com/isl_170_05_2.jpg...

Iturralde-V. himself points out that humans capable of this type of complex architecture simply were not available. There is already a fairly decent chronolgy of man available in fossil/archaeological record above the ocean to support this. Not to mention that the earliest evidence of human...

I think it's most likely horsts and/or graben blocks that were dislodged from a fault higher in the terrain. The bathymetry of the area would seem to support that, but there would have to have been some tectonic event to make it happen. Whatever it turns out to be Iturralde-Vinent seems to...

TL dating is pretty good, but the downside is that the pottery is nearly always destroyed in the process. The re-heating makes it very brittle and it will usually fall apart/crumble the very next time it's handled. Also, some comparative analysis needs to be done to the soil.