Wal Thornhill is a Complete Fraud (Thunderbolts Project Debunked)
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I've debunked some charlatans in the area of astrophysics before. But it's worth revisiting to cover one of the primary figures of this rubbish, Wal Thornhill. He runs the channel "Thunderbolts Project", and has basically dedicated his life to lying about science to make money on the internet. Let's go through some of his favorite talking points and explain why they're stupid, shall we?
Composition of Comet Hyakutake: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c...
Deep Impact and Tempel 1: www.jerichardsonjr.info/Papers...
Chandra and Tempel 1: citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...
Swift and Tempel 1: swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/pu...
Water on Tempel 1: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Composition of Hartley 2: arxiv.org/pdf/1406.3382.pdf
Diamagnetic Cavity at 67P: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Halley's Coma:
deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstr...
More on Tempel 1: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Cometary X-rays: adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2002AS...
MIRO and 67P: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
CONSERT and 67P: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Structure of 67P: www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Exposed Water on 67P: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Water and Carbon Dioxide on 67P: www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf...
Rosetta Observations: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
67P Outburst: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
LIGO-Virgo Detector Guide: iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
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I think you are missing a really strong contribution that Thornhill has made. I was having a lot of trouble building a cosmology for my Dungeons and Dragons homebrew fantasy setting. His work has really helped me devise a pretend universe for a fantastical story about dragons and magic. Thanks, Wal, for making up nonsense so I don't have to!
My biggest question for this guy is why is it so important to him? Seriously, why does he need all of the scientific data provided by literally everyone else to be false? Why does he need Comets to not be made of Ice and dust? What does it lend to his life for anyone to believe this?
This paltry contribution is way overdue but I hope that despite the late arrival, this pittance helps you keep up with the great work you do 😁
For the record, Einstein also believed that plate tectonics was bullshit, and one of his last acts before his death was to write the foreword to a book claiming to debunk it. That's an example I always use of how 1) even the most brilliant scientists are non-experts when they step out of the field they're trained in, and 2) no, scientists do not blindly accept everything Einstein said as scripture, they just accept the things he said that are testable and yield useful scientific results.
Big respect to you for taking your time to debunk such people who became professionals at pseudoscience.
It is insane that people think civilizations over 3 thousand years ago, knew more about the universe than now
I have my PHD in computer science (emphasis in computational astrophysics). People will sneer at me (after they asked me) and say 'oh bet you're really smart. No, I don't think that I am smarter then the next person that worked hard in their studies. There is something about astrophysics that seems to have a jealousy factor to it I don't understand. I am amazed at those that do organic chemistry. What is this thing about people not having ever done anything in these fields feeling like they need to defeat the science?
You gotta wonder why these guys don't settle for writing science fiction.
You don’t get in the way of someone mining comedy gold. Rogan was correct by not pushing back during the interview.
"Three quarks and a gluon" sounds like the start of a great dad joke. Someone funnier than me should finish it. Thanks for everything you do Professor Dave!
Complaining that physics is "too much maths" is like complaining that history is "too much writing". It's a fundamental part of the discipline and it would be easier for everyone if you were to say you just don't like the subject, as that's pretty much what you mean.
Why don’t science charlatans/flat earthers/etc. get into writing fiction? Their ability to build entire fake worlds is astounding, and it’s more honest money
Your book, 'Is This Wi-Fi Organic?', helped me get a friend out of the flat earth nonsense, because of course that crap made its way to Germany -.- You're making a difference, your efforts are appreciated and i'm looking forward to a steady income, because you've earned way more than the 21,45€ i payed.
I think the most astonishing leap Wal makes is thinking that "f=ma" is somehow NOT math!
"He can't even build a toaster." "This magnetic field is thousands of times weaker than a kitchen magnet" best quotes!
As a mathematician, I can only face-palm when people try to insinuate that it's a problem when a science is
It is amazing the amount of misinformation available on the internet
It's so perfect when you embody the infantile nature of the fraud by showing a list of physicists and saying things like "just look at these dummy dum dums". So deliciously and appropriately patronizing.
The best part for me is his claims of M87 being a plasmoid can be debunked simply by pointing out how remarkable it is that the torus should just so happen to be precisely aligned so that we see one of its poles, and it looks like a perfect circle.
The bulk of FE and EU believers have argument that sum to: “YOU BELIEVE [insert fact here]??? THAT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO ME/THAT’S ABSURD THOUGH” their lack of understanding and incredulity makes it just about impossible to actually change their minds. They may just not be able to understand it.