Comments on: Researching the Baigong Pipes http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/ The official blog of the Skeptologists Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:44:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: moyston http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-56925 moyston Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:06:40 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-56925 Well interesting, im sure there are always ppl around that will try to de bunk theories or things that cant be explained. i didnt read how you explained that the pipes that were found are made of metal ...bamboo turned to metal or the salts around the bamboo over years formed metal?. Well interesting, im sure there are always ppl around that will try to de bunk theories or things that cant be explained. i didnt read how you explained that the pipes that were found are made of metal …bamboo turned to metal or the salts around the bamboo over years formed metal?.

]]> By: Dan http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-16906 Dan Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:03:10 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-16906 Thanks for the insight. It is amasing how much information you fit into each episode of Skeptoid. Keep up the good work. Thanks for the insight. It is amasing how much information you fit into each episode of Skeptoid.

Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Sean Ellis http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15556 Sean Ellis Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:05:10 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15556 I think "out of place artefact" is a bit of a mouthful and would like to draw eveyone's attention to the wonderful word "twonky", meaning an anachronistic object out of place. This was coined by John Varley in his SF novel "Millennium", where it was referring to items left behind accidentally by time travellers. I think “out of place artefact” is a bit of a mouthful and would like to draw eveyone’s attention to the wonderful word “twonky”, meaning an anachronistic object out of place.

This was coined by John Varley in his SF novel “Millennium”, where it was referring to items left behind accidentally by time travellers.

]]> By: pzdum http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15373 pzdum Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:51:54 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15373 we’re pulling the plug on this piece of blasphemy called PHARYNGULA… http://www.conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?/topic/25104-atheist-apocalypse/page__pid__117856__st__0& we’re pulling the plug on this piece of blasphemy called PHARYNGULA…

http://www.conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?/topic/25104-atheist-apocalypse/page__pid__117856__st__0&

]]> By: Brian Dunning http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15319 Brian Dunning Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:53:55 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15319 Are you talking about the link to join the Google group? Just go to http://skeptoid.com/research.php and click the link. There are 100's of people on the list so I know it works... :-) Are you talking about the link to join the Google group? Just go to http://skeptoid.com/research.php and click the link. There are 100′s of people on the list so I know it works… :-)

]]> By: AUJT http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15318 AUJT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:11:57 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15318 The sign up email addy is not good. Please repost. The sign up email addy is not good. Please repost.

]]> By: gwen http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15316 gwen Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:14:12 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15316 I am a fan of your show, and this is one of the most fascinating subjects you have done as of yet. can't wait for the next one! I am a fan of your show, and this is one of the most fascinating subjects you have done as of yet. can’t wait for the next one!

]]> By: MadScientist http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15304 MadScientist Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:20:58 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15304 Casts of dead trees are not all that unusual. In Western Australia there is an entire exposed forest of root (and perhaps some lower trunk) castings; it is known as "The Pinnacles". If you know what type of environment such casts develop in, you can go prospecting for them. Unless the wood itself is mineralized (as with petrified wood) you will not see tree rings (and in the case of bamboo you will never see tree rings). However, it is plausible that there are multiple accretion rings on the casts and such a feature may be misinterpreted as tree rings. Casts of dead trees are not all that unusual. In Western Australia there is an entire exposed forest of root (and perhaps some lower trunk) castings; it is known as “The Pinnacles”. If you know what type of environment such casts develop in, you can go prospecting for them.

Unless the wood itself is mineralized (as with petrified wood) you will not see tree rings (and in the case of bamboo you will never see tree rings). However, it is plausible that there are multiple accretion rings on the casts and such a feature may be misinterpreted as tree rings.

]]> By: AdamK http://www.skepticblog.org/2009/12/03/researching-the-baigong-pipes/#comment-15281 AdamK Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:22:14 +0000 http://skepticblog.org/?p=5417#comment-15281 It was a particularly interesting episode. I'd never heard of the Baigong Pipes or of fossilized tree casts. The latter topic is fascinating. It was a particularly interesting episode. I’d never heard of the Baigong Pipes or of fossilized tree casts. The latter topic is fascinating.

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