Comments on: More evidence of the pirates – temperature relationship http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:40:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TBags http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-806330 TBags Fri, 08 May 2009 10:53:24 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-806330 what is also clear is that Wall Street has a particular disdain for pirates! As can be seen here, not only does global warming decrease with incresing pirate mass, but retail sales drop! http://www.google.com/trends?q=global+warming%2C+pirates%2C+retail&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0 what is also clear is that Wall Street has a particular disdain for pirates! As can be seen here, not only does global warming decrease with incresing pirate mass, but retail sales drop!

http://www.google.com/trends?q=global+warming%2C+pirates%2C+retail&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=0

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]]> By: Eaver http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-690436 Eaver Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:24:53 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-690436 Is it my imagination, or do my results look like Flying Spaghetti Monster Himself?... http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/Starmaroo/PiratetoGlobalWarmingRatio.png Is it my imagination, or do my results look like Flying Spaghetti Monster Himself?…
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/Starmaroo/PiratetoGlobalWarmingRatio.png

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]]> By: Alex http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-407225 Alex Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:01:22 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-407225 Lol, it works with pasta, pastafarianism... Try putting deforestation into the search: No correlation! Lol, it works with pasta, pastafarianism… Try putting deforestation into the search: No correlation!

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]]> By: Gabe http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-405039 Gabe Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:31:07 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-405039 In fact, I've just noticed this: Whoever wrote this post has conveniently chopped of the bottom half of the graph, the half that disproves the theory entirely. See, the graph you see in the post above is showing you search trends; that is, as more people search for "pirates" on Google, less people are searching for "Global warming". All this proves is that there's a definite link between how much people care about pirates and how much people care about global warming. Though interesting, the graph does nothing toward proving this theory. The link below shows the "news reference volume", which is how many times each item showed up in a news story somewhere on the Internet. http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1px3.png I think you'll find that there is no correlation between the two other than their being on the same graph. Look at it. In the end, then, this post proves nothing, only serving to make me suspicious as to other supposed "facts" that this website is spreading... In fact, I’ve just noticed this: Whoever wrote this post has conveniently chopped of the bottom half of the graph, the half that disproves the theory entirely.

See, the graph you see in the post above is showing you search trends; that is, as more people search for “pirates” on Google, less people are searching for “Global warming”. All this proves is that there’s a definite link between how much people care about pirates and how much people care about global warming.

Though interesting, the graph does nothing toward proving this theory.

The link below shows the “news reference volume”, which is how many times each item showed up in a news story somewhere on the Internet.

http://img254.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture1px3.png

I think you’ll find that there is no correlation between the two other than their being on the same graph. Look at it.

In the end, then, this post proves nothing, only serving to make me suspicious as to other supposed “facts” that this website is spreading…

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]]> By: asgardian http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-388506 asgardian Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:19:48 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-388506 Wow, and the stats keep on proving themselves all the way through april too... Does anyone know if eating noodles is disrespectful in any way, or is it like bread, wine and jesus? And what about eating pirates? Wow, and the stats keep on proving themselves all the way through april too…

Does anyone know if eating noodles is disrespectful in any way, or is it like bread, wine and jesus?

And what about eating pirates?

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]]> By: ME DUH http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-388074 ME DUH Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:05:38 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-388074 @ Vermicelli: C'mon!! Isn't there a slight possibility that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is pleased by the increase of pirates and is helping us in return? I BELIEVE IT!! Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FSM IS MIGHTY!!! MAY HIS NOODLY APPENDAGE TOUCH ALL AND MAY YOU BATHE IN THE WARMTH OF HIS SAUCE!! RAmen! @ Vermicelli: C’mon!! Isn’t there a slight possibility that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is pleased by the increase of pirates and is helping us in return? I BELIEVE IT!!

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE FSM IS MIGHTY!!! MAY HIS NOODLY APPENDAGE TOUCH ALL AND MAY YOU BATHE IN THE WARMTH OF HIS SAUCE!!

RAmen!

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]]> By: physics wench http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-387556 physics wench Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:35:58 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-387556 there is a similar trend if you do global warming and pasta! :) try it there is a similar trend if you do global warming and pasta! :) try it

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]]> By: Gabe http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-385317 Gabe Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:35:57 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-385317 @marsupialninja (nice name, by the way) I think you're taking this far too seriously. I may be wrong, but at this point in time this is the only evidence I've seen toward any possibility of people searching for a relationship between global warming and pirates. Don't get me wrong, I like pirates (not as much as I like ninjas, but there you go), but I don't think they have anything to do with the current global climate. Certainly, I don't think most pirates know they're meant to have something to do with the current global climate. Is it possible be involved in something like that accidentally? @marsupialninja (nice name, by the way)

I think you’re taking this far too seriously. I may be wrong, but at this point in time this is the only evidence I’ve seen toward any possibility of people searching for a relationship between global warming and pirates.

Don’t get me wrong, I like pirates (not as much as I like ninjas, but there you go), but I don’t think they have anything to do with the current global climate.
Certainly, I don’t think most pirates know they’re meant to have something to do with the current global climate. Is it possible be involved in something like that accidentally?

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]]> By: marsupialninja http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-380221 marsupialninja Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:25:54 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-380221 @Gabe No. That is not how this works at all. Just as the noodly appendage skews the results of carbon dating, it clearly has the intention of invalidating this graph to skeptics like you. However, in displaying unyielding faith for the FSM, I take this to be all the empirical evidence necessary to propagate the related beliefs. The mere fact that is exists is proof. In a couple thousand years or so, the age of this hard evidence will cement Him into if not above the ranks of other deities, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and so forth. As I am staunch in my beliefs, I think your time would be better spent working on your Diana conspiracy theories rather than pointing out inconsistencies of a future inarguable reference. @Gabe
No. That is not how this works at all.
Just as the noodly appendage skews the results of carbon dating, it clearly has the intention of invalidating this graph to skeptics like you. However, in displaying unyielding faith for the FSM, I take this to be all the empirical evidence necessary to propagate the related beliefs. The mere fact that is exists is proof. In a couple thousand years or so, the age of this hard evidence will cement Him into if not above the ranks of other deities, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and so forth.
As I am staunch in my beliefs, I think your time would be better spent working on your Diana conspiracy theories rather than pointing out inconsistencies of a future inarguable reference.

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]]> By: Gabe http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-379757 Gabe Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:19:38 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-379757 Has anyone else spotted that the graph used is simple showing what people search for? So, as more people search for pirates, less people search for global warming. So in the end, this graph proves nothing - though it is fun. And relying on those news stories as evidence is like trying to say that Ben Croshaw had something to do with the Princess Diana conspiracy... Has anyone else spotted that the graph used is simple showing what people search for? So, as more people search for pirates, less people search for global warming.

So in the end, this graph proves nothing – though it is fun.
And relying on those news stories as evidence is like trying to say that Ben Croshaw had something to do with the Princess Diana conspiracy…

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]]> By: Song http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-378482 Song Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:52:03 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-378482 Incredible. Truly incredible. This is converting material. I think I'll show the landlubbers this, see what they have to say. Incredible. Truly incredible. This is converting material. I think I’ll show the landlubbers this, see what they have to say.

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]]> By: Explosivo http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-377651 Explosivo Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:06:11 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-377651 Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for talking about global warming. However, at the same time the last 5 years has seen the Pirates of the Caribbean series haul in over $700 million and has spiked a huge increase in pirate-clad people. So I ask you - who's going to be right and who's going to end up looking like an idiot in the fullness of time? When global temperatures start falling again because of the work of one man, the hero everyone will praise WON'T be Al Gore - it will be one John Christopher Depp II. Al Gore won a Nobel Prize for talking about global warming. However, at the same time the last 5 years has seen the Pirates of the Caribbean series haul in over $700 million and has spiked a huge increase in pirate-clad people. So I ask you – who’s going to be right and who’s going to end up looking like an idiot in the fullness of time? When global temperatures start falling again because of the work of one man, the hero everyone will praise WON’T be Al Gore – it will be one John Christopher Depp II.

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]]> By: long john silver http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-377169 long john silver Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:19:30 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-377169 Get yourself a parrot! 'Arrrgh, Jim, me lad!' Get yourself a parrot! ‘Arrrgh, Jim, me lad!’

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]]> By: Josh http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-376777 Josh Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:38:34 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-376777 Wow, this makes soo much sense. Wow, this makes soo much sense.

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]]> By: Franko http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-375210 Franko Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:15:15 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-375210 Wow, I'm scared. I thought the pirate/global-warming thing was all in good fun - a distraction, while we prove that evolution is just an illusion by voting that it is so. Must go fetal for a while, in a dark room, and absorb all this. Wow, I’m scared. I thought the pirate/global-warming thing was all in good fun – a distraction, while we prove that evolution is just an illusion by voting that it is so. Must go fetal for a while, in a dark room, and absorb all this.

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]]> By: Kelly http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-374935 Kelly Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:50:39 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-374935 I think a friend of mine is going to be really happy with this news. (She has a thing for pirates, haha.) I think a friend of mine is going to be really happy with this news.
(She has a thing for pirates, haha.)

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]]> By: Cap'n Wolf http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-367839 Cap'n Wolf Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:52:57 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-367839 Yay! The pirates are returning! Yay! The pirates are returning!

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]]> By: Vermicelli http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-367467 Vermicelli Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:33:28 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-367467 Likely just a statistical anomaly. Likely just a statistical anomaly.

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]]> By: Alexander http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-366512 Alexander Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:35:18 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-366512 Well, not the first one to spot the power of these news, but just for completeness, here is the link to the original news on the rise in piracy by the competent international body: http://www.icc-ccs.org/main/news.php?newsid=102 Well, not the first one to spot the power of these news, but just for completeness, here is the link to the original news on the rise in piracy by the competent international body: http://www.icc-ccs.org/main/news.php?newsid=102

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]]> By: James D King of Pirates http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature/#comment-366339 James D King of Pirates Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:19:39 +0000 http://www.venganza.org/2008/04/04/pirates-temperature.htm#comment-366339 http://www.google.com/trends?q=Pasta%2C+money&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 this is truly a greed oriented society http://www.google.com/trends?q=Pasta%2C+gambling&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 and yet pasta prevents gambling http://www.google.com/trends?q=Flying+Spaghetti+Monster%2C+Church+of+google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 And we still beat out the church of google Random things are fun, try it yourself http://www.google.com/trends?q=Pasta%2C+money&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
this is truly a greed oriented society

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Pasta%2C+gambling&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

and yet pasta prevents gambling

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Flying+Spaghetti+Monster%2C+Church+of+google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

And we still beat out the church of google

Random things are fun, try it yourself

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