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The Mystery of the North Star: Astronomers baffled to find Polaris is getting BRIGHTER
Daily Mail ^
| UPDATED: 16:18 EST, 5 February 2014
| MARK PRIGG
Posted on 02/06/2014 12:11:57 AM PST by ApplegateRanch
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To: SunkenCiv
Should be of interest tio you.
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02/06/2014 12:12:56 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: ApplegateRanch
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02/06/2014 12:29:27 AM PST
by
Faith65
(Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior!)
To: ApplegateRanch
It reached the end of the universe, turned around, and is coming back ....
It's all perspective
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02/06/2014 12:51:05 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: ApplegateRanch
So they are making this claim based on a 1100 year old observation compared to new intrumentation made just 14 years ago?
I think that explains it right there.
To: ApplegateRanch
To: Organic Panic
partly; but the reversals and major brightening are from comparing 20th century measurements; the stuff going back centuries is a different issue. The article is a typical Daily Mail jumble.
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02/06/2014 12:57:47 AM PST
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ApplegateRanch
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To: fieldmarshaldj
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02/06/2014 1:10:34 AM PST
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DannyTN
To: ApplegateRanch
Question from the ignorant here: what does CE stand for?
To: ApplegateRanch
'If they are real,(ie the measurements) Key phrase to this article.
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02/06/2014 1:15:18 AM PST
by
Fzob
(Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
To: Organic Panic
Yes it’s sort of like Global Warming. Trying to use modern measurements against estimated ancient measurements doesn’t necessarily work well. And it is Bush’s fault.
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posted on
02/06/2014 1:15:22 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
To: mn-bush-man
Common Era. PC way of saying AD, originated in at least mid 1800s.
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02/06/2014 1:15:33 AM PST
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ApplegateRanch
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To: ApplegateRanch
IT WENT BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!
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posted on
02/06/2014 1:16:36 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(The Ender's Game movie was a stupendous, colossal, galactic failure to me.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Polaris is such a quirky north star. Thuban was much more reliable.
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posted on
02/06/2014 1:37:34 AM PST
by
RC one
To: mn-bush-man
Question from the ignorant here: what does CE stand for? It's an atheist thing. Their fingers just can't write AD or BC because God is in those abbreviations.
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02/06/2014 1:53:05 AM PST
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Ethan Clive Osgoode
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To: RC one
You’re right; Thuban is the logical choice.
I preferred Vega, but Chevy took it over and tarnished the name, and so now we’re stuck with Polaris, a wonky Dodge product.
We need to crank Thuban back into position.
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02/06/2014 2:00:35 AM PST
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ApplegateRanch
(Love me, love my guns!©)
To: ApplegateRanch
Must be the reason for global warming here./s
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posted on
02/06/2014 2:10:19 AM PST
by
teacherwoes
(obamacare--like you need a hole in your head)
To: ApplegateRanch; mn-bush-man
I always read it as “Christian Era” when I come across it. Which is really what it means.
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posted on
02/06/2014 2:15:42 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: ApplegateRanch
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02/06/2014 3:19:35 AM PST
by
preacher
(I am not a global warming hoax denier.)
To: Organic Panic
So they are making this claim based on a 1100 year old observation compared to new instrumentation made just 14 years ago? With what instrumentation. The first telescopes were made around 1608. The first photometers were made around 1861 and I imagine even those were not sensitive enough in a telescope for starlight measurements.
Comparisons were made by eye judging the light by comparing it to another one at least before 1608. So just how accurate that is the article does not say.
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02/06/2014 3:25:13 AM PST
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sr4402
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