hmmm….This video is only working half the time. Let me know if you have problems viewing the video.
lora November 27th, 2007
7:34 pm
I’d like to point out that his transfer-of-energy calculation could be a bit off… since once the object hits the earth’s atmosphere, there’s going to be heat dissipation/transfer through friction with the air (vs. vacuum of space). In addition to the mechanical collision that converts kinetic energy into “heat” energy, there’s also the “thermal” collision that occurs when a cold body hits a warm one… as a result the icy galactic colliding body will absorb some of the “heat debt” in the collision… although this is probably a relatively small effect, given the realistic order of magnitude difference between earth and icy galactic body.
No matter how you cut it, though, the creationist animation is painfully, painfully inaccurate. I’d take the back-of-the-hand calculation of the YouTube guy over that…
Yeah. There are a lot assumptions in the guy’s calculation. In general I think the take home message is that the creationist have little to no understanding of science and how impossible their theory is.
If the ice doesn’t melt on the way in, it would cause a massive collision that would not “fall like snow” only on the north and south poles. The “Hovind theory” violates a lot of laws of physics.
Jess November 28th, 2007
2:27 pm
But what if it was *Quantum* ice??? That would factor for its magnetic properties AND it’s snowballabilitude. It’s probably true. This Hovind guy sounds like he really knows what he’s talking about.
… What amazes me the most is that he doesn’t even seem to understand why the poles would be naturally cold. The most logical explanation is surely holy intergalactic snowballs.
hmmm….This video is only working half the time. Let me know if you have problems viewing the video.
I’d like to point out that his transfer-of-energy calculation could be a bit off… since once the object hits the earth’s atmosphere, there’s going to be heat dissipation/transfer through friction with the air (vs. vacuum of space). In addition to the mechanical collision that converts kinetic energy into “heat” energy, there’s also the “thermal” collision that occurs when a cold body hits a warm one… as a result the icy galactic colliding body will absorb some of the “heat debt” in the collision… although this is probably a relatively small effect, given the realistic order of magnitude difference between earth and icy galactic body.
No matter how you cut it, though, the creationist animation is painfully, painfully inaccurate. I’d take the back-of-the-hand calculation of the YouTube guy over that…
Yeah. There are a lot assumptions in the guy’s calculation. In general I think the take home message is that the creationist have little to no understanding of science and how impossible their theory is.
If the ice doesn’t melt on the way in, it would cause a massive collision that would not “fall like snow” only on the north and south poles. The “Hovind theory” violates a lot of laws of physics.
But what if it was *Quantum* ice??? That would factor for its magnetic properties AND it’s snowballabilitude. It’s probably true. This Hovind guy sounds like he really knows what he’s talking about.
… What amazes me the most is that he doesn’t even seem to understand why the poles would be naturally cold. The most logical explanation is surely holy intergalactic snowballs.
*sigh*
This linked from one of your google ads… Ew.
http://www.creationministries.org/seminars.asp#sem