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Hey, you remember last fall when Stephen '1985' Meyer came to OU?
And I went to see him, not Johnny Wells, so Wells threw an epic tantrum?
Smith left abruptly after the lecture and did not stay for the Q&A.
"Hi! Im Johnny Wells! I wasnt at the lecture, but Im going to tell everyone what…
Poor Jonathan Wells.
He saw my new haircut on Facebook, got all excited for his vacation to Oklahoma to see me, and then I stood him up. Poor babby. Threw a massive tantrum on EN&V trying to get my attention. Poor poor babby.
Well its a cold rainy Sunday, Arnies snoozing on the futon, so I…
Some scientists from this blog attended the annual meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology recently and came across a poster by none other than Jonathan Wells of the Discovery Institute. For those who have not attended a scientific conference, a poster is a sort of second-level way of…
Jonathan Wells recently gave a talk in Albuquerque at something called the "Forum on Science, Origins, and Design", a conference about which I can find absolutely nothing on the web. I wasn't there, of course, and I don't get invited to these goofy events anyway, but I did get a copy of Wells'…
Forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but that simulation isn't accurate. Or else Mr. Siron was half asleep when he went to pick up his newspaper. It's hard to miss a pre-existing three-foot-wide hole.
The part about how he fell into the hole seems accurate given the press reports. I think there is a good chance he was half asleep and was not concerned about a hole being there.
As an archaeologist,I've dug thousands of holes. Now and then someone fell into one. It generally happens when the hole is first dug an no one expects it, or when someone arrives on a site for the first time and the hole is in a place there is usually not one. If you removed a step from a stairway people use all the time, there'd be a pretty good chance people would stumble on it because they were on autopilot.
It is quite possible, tought, that the hole was not visible or not very visible because the turf covered all or much of it.
Here's a picture of the sinhole:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-20127890/elderly-man-rescued-from-8…
Sinkholes always collapse from underneath. The top was probably still covered by sod that was held together by a few roots of the grass. When he stepped on it, it simply couldn't support his weight, even though it could support the few wisps of sod that were covering it.
That's probably true. But we should also remember that this is being called a "sinkhole" that might have been a well. Which is not a sinkhole. It's a well.
Long island isn't particularly karstic.