User talk:Tarotcards

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"Earth"

I noticed you made some edits recently changing "the Earth" to "earth." Although "the Earth" is somewhat awkward, Earth the planet does in fact have a capital letter. Lowercase earth means dirt. Andre (talk) 19:29, 19 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

the following from dictionary.com: earth [urth] Pronunciation Key –noun 1. (often initial capital letter) the planet third in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 7926 mi. (12,755 km) and a polar diameter of 7900 mi. (12,714 km), a mean distance from the sun of 92.9 million mi. (149.6 million km), and a period of revolution of 365.26 days, and having one satellite. 2. the inhabitants of this planet, esp. the human inhabitants: The whole earth rejoiced. 3. this planet as the habitation of humans, often in contrast to heaven and hell: to create a hell on earth. 4. the surface of this planet: to fall to earth. [...] 9. Also called earth color. Fine Arts. any of various pigments consisting chiefly of iron oxides and tending toward brown in hue. 10. Chiefly British Electronics. a ground. 11. Archaic. a land or country. –verb (used with object) 12. Chiefly British Electronics. to ground. —Idioms 13. move heaven and earth. heaven (def. 7). 14. on earth, in the world: Where on earth have you been? 15. run to earth, a. Hunting. to chase (an animal) into its hole or burrow: to run a fox to earth. b. to search out; track down: They ran the fugitive to earth in Algiers. [Origin: bef. 950; ME erthe, OE eorthe; c. G Erde, D aarde, ON jǫrth, Dan jord, Goth airtha]

... often does not mean always, andre. in fact, you will notice that, in all of their examples, they have used a lowercase earth. looks like the standard, preferred usage is lowercase. of course, each individual has a particular preference, such as the serial comma, interior placement of commas within quotes and parentheses, etc. thanks for your attempt at bettering my edits, though, it was a nice try. keep up the good effort, every tiny positive change we make singularly cumulates plurally here on wiki. how about a toast, in mutual admiration of our planet, a toast for peace on earth; for, even if it may be unattainable, it can still be striven for. regards, tarotcards. 20.07.06.20.16.43.33

Hello... sorry to tell you this, but your recent changes involving lower-case "earth" and "Luna" have been reverted. The consensus in science articles is to use "the Moon". "Luna" is considered non-standard amongst astronomers and in the English language. Similarly, the general standard is to use capital-"E" "Earth. Cheers. --Ckatz^chat _spy 00:36, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion review of [[Image:Max-Planck-und-Albert-Einstein.jpg]]

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Measurement Causes Collapse

You might find this interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurement_causes_collapse

And their unfortunate attempt to delete it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Measurement_causes_collapse

Lordvolton (talk) 11:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Pandemic Severity Index

I might have reverted something that you want to put back in. I'm tired, but some asshole (not you) added stuff he made up. WAS 4.250 (talk) 23:50, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Biased editing of Technological Utopianism by Loremaster.

Due to your past contribution to Singularitarianism, you may want to help editing the Technological utopianism article because currently only one editor is contributing to the article. The Singularitarianism Article could also benefit from your help.

I feel Loremaster is editing Singularitarianism and Technological utopianism in a biased manner in accordance with his Save The Earth propaganda. Loremasters's ideology seems to verge towards Neo-Luddism. Here are the damming facts Loremaster has stated in discussion:

Loremaster says he is:

"...critical of techno-utopianism in all its forms."

Loremaster wants people to:

"...stop indulging in techno-utopian fantasies... ...so that we can all focus on energies on saving the planet."

Loremaster sees his editing as a 'fight' and he states:

"Although I am convinced that the world is in fact heading toward an ecological catastrophe, I think it can be averted and my optimism makes me want to fight to do do just that."

86.174.64.123 (talk) 12:58, 18 December 2010 (UTC)?[reply]

LOL
Despite the fact that I openly admit to being a technorealist who is critical of techno-utopianism in all its forms, I have let never this point of view influence any of my edits or reverts of the Technological utopianism article. On the contrary, I am the person most responsible for expanding this article with content some would argue is “pro-techno-utopian” (i.e. passages from James Hughes' book Citizen Cyborg).
I find it disgusting that User:86.174.64.123 would take comments I made out of context to falsely make it seem I see my editing of any article as part of my fight for the environment.
In light of this outrageous act of bad faith, I will do everything in my power to get this jerk banned from Wikipedia.

--Loremaster (talk) 13:14, 18 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Milankovitch cycles

Yes, I see your point, the Earth's orbit is not an ellipse except an ellipse one might draw with one of those pens with a motor in it. But your edit replaces a categorical statement with a vague one, in order to reference something that is very much off-topic. What about restoring the original text and slapping a footnote on it that "Technically, the ellipse is drawn by the center of mass of the Earth-Moon system." Are there additional qualifications to the ellipse model that deserve mention? Spike-from-NH (talk) 01:18, 29 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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