Posted on 03/17/2005 10:25:36 AM PST by ShadowAce
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It's not so much the subjects, as the purple way the article sells them. A few examples:
In part 2, they simply handwave away the fact that inflationary cosmology--which is very widely accepted, and which has a great deal of observational support--solves the horizon problem.
Part 4 concludes with, "we may have to rewrite physics and chemistry".
Part 12 fails to mention that Webb's methodology was never widely accepted, and almost nobody accepts his conclusion anymore, particularly in light of the fact that nobody has been able to reproduce his result.
Part 13 misrepresents the DOE's attitude towards cold fusion. The December report still maintains that there's essentially no evidence that any such effect exists.
I could go on, but you get the idea. Pretty much every edition of the New Scientist contains at least one breathless article proclaiming the complete overturning of this or that science, or declaring that everything we know is wrong.
Who told Keanu Reeves he could act?
I hate to be a party pooper, but where I live, lots of people walk up to the drive-in ATM.
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Yeah, they do. It can be taken as a good thing that encourages the youngsters to dig into these topics and find out what is really going on with these obvious misstatements. Like Hoagland claiming there are ruins of cities on Mars and challenging NASA to go there and prove him wrong, such challenges can stimulate action.
Even if they're blind? Man, talking about a Monty Python skit just begging to be made. I would ecertainly hope that a blind person would have more sense than to walk through a parking lot to a drive-up ATM.
He was just hoping to get a little wookie?
> The Pioneer deviations and the Kuiper Cliff could be the result of a spacetime anomaly orbiting the Sun in deep space -- a naturally-occurring wormhole, say.
It is unlikely that a single gravitational source woudl cause all of these. The Kuiper Cliff, yes, one or the other of the Pioneers, yes... but all three? No. There would be notable differentials, which there do not seem to be.
In any event, if gravitational sources are involved, it's far more likely to be somethign dull like a dark planet than something interesting like a wormhole. That's just how it happens...
Why do people say " Guess what I heard ? You'll never know what happen " and then, proceed to tell them.
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Why do they call townhouses, townhouses, when some of them are out in the country ?
ping for later..
That is too easily esplained, Loocy. Ooops...I mean Nauti. We don't ask for directions because we only listen to the "little guy downstairs" and he is too self-absorbed to worry about "where"...only "when".
Because it is required by law?
13 things that do not make sense
Why do 7-11's have locks on their doors?
Why is it that the Secretary of the Interior is in charge of every thing out-doors? Should'nt he benamed Secretary of teh Exterior?
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