Smullyan-esque

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Smullyan-esque

I am glad to see that you have decided to apologize for this earlier statement:
I am sure the actual "I'm sorry I said that. I was wrong." just slipped your mind temporarily. I'll keep reminding you that you actually need to say it.

[mom]It isn't an apology until you say sorry![/mom]

Mike PSS

I don't swear often Dave. But FUCK.
Not only have people explained this to you ad nauseum but they have shown graphs, charts, doodles, books, and every other piece of fucking evidence you could think of to describe the consiliant nature of the different dating methods.
The primary method is with vulcanism. We know when volcanoes erupted in modern and ancient times. We even have some weather correllations that are documented.
When Vesuvius blew its top we have some Vesuvius dust in ice cores in Greenland. "How?" do you say? By fucking testing the dust at the 79AD (or what the experimenters think is the 79AD point) in the ice core and verifying that the chemical composition of this dust is the same as the ash field found in fucking Sardinia (airborne volcanic dust is different in composition than the actual paraclastic flows). But you still stick your ignorant neck out and say "But there could be other sources of that dust or other times when Vesuvius blew its top." Well Sherlock, what do you think a database is used for. Why do scientists test different layers. Each volcanic eruption event has chemical markers that make its ejecta unique from other events even from the same mountain.
So what does this mean for consilliance? Just that the dust layer in the Greenland ice core can now be "NAILED DOWN" to 79AD. And also since the scientists know how many years back to 79AD it is (simple arithmatic) they can also verify that their counting method of layers is valid (one layer every year).
So how does a dendrochronologist work this magic? Why the same fucking way by looking at known historic events that can affect the tree ring. The year without a summer from Krakatoa is a classic marker for dendro counters. And it also shows that the one ring per year standard is supported because on a living 500 year old tree you only need to count back 191 rings to find the narrow ring related to 1816 Krakatoa event.
So how does a Lake Varve specialist use this consiliance thing? Well, you should start and get the idea, but you probably won't. :Cheeky:

You disappoint me Dave. You are so deep into the intellectual gutter that I fear there is no getting out for you anymore.

Silent Dave

Bump so that Dave doesn't neglect to address the point I made above.

The one in green.

Mike PSS

I'm glad you said which color. Otherwise I would have missed it too.

BWE

Yeah. It was hidden in among the blue background. I almost missed it. But fortunately I kept scrolling down until it found me.

This is fun.

akki007

This is the post that should be in bold, red, large type.

Silent Dave

Bumpity bump.

Dave's last activity on IIDB was 7:24 this morning. No response to the green words, to no one's surprise.

Faid

14C Calibration Curves.

Faid

...What? You think dave paid attention to your posts?