Comments on: Introducing the Bad Astronomy Blog http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:02:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Thaiboxerken http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4172 Thaiboxerken Thu, 19 May 2005 21:33:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4172 You obviously didn't read the entire article. A space probe actually landed on a comet and found water!! You obviously didn’t read the entire article. A space probe actually landed on a comet and found water!!

]]> By: Erik Johnson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4171 Erik Johnson Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:40:50 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4171 As a truth seeker, I was initially refreshed by the critical thinking I encountered on this web site. Unfortunately, it is critical of the truth. According to an article on your web site located at http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/mccanney/snowballs.html, Jim McCanney couldn't possibly be correct about comets not being balls of ice, because you can measure the temperature with a spectroscope. This URL of yours claims that you can use this device to read the temperature of an object in space depending on it's COLOR in the light spectrum. Anyone who has taken a chemistry class knows that the color of light from a is a direct response from the burning of a specific chemical on the periodic table of elements. Each chemical gives off a unique color in spectrum of light that can be seen when that element is burned, regardless of the temperature. This article of yours is blatant disinfo, and I am left wondering why you would slander McCanney with lies. Honestly, I already know why, and hopefully anyone who reads this will too. Here's a clue: it has to do with Nikola Tesla. As a truth seeker, I was initially refreshed by the critical thinking I encountered on this web site. Unfortunately, it is critical of the truth. According to an article on your web site located at http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/mccanney/snowballs.html, Jim McCanney couldn’t possibly be correct about comets not being balls of ice, because you can measure the temperature with a spectroscope. This URL of yours claims that you can use this device to read the temperature of an object in space depending on it’s COLOR in the light spectrum. Anyone who has taken a chemistry class knows that the color of light from a is a direct response from the burning of a specific chemical on the periodic table of elements. Each chemical gives off a unique color in spectrum of light that can be seen when that element is burned, regardless of the temperature. This article of yours is blatant disinfo, and I am left wondering why you would slander McCanney with lies. Honestly, I already know why, and hopefully anyone who reads this will too. Here’s a clue: it has to do with Nikola Tesla.

]]> By: Barry Johnson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4170 Barry Johnson Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:03:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4170 Welcome to the blogosphere, Phil. You're a welcome addition to my blogroll. Welcome to the blogosphere, Phil. You’re a welcome addition to my blogroll.

]]> By: Paul http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4169 Paul Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:52:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4169 Podcast... please do a podcast. It's not that difficult... honest it's not. Podcast… please do a podcast. It’s not that difficult… honest it’s not.

]]> By: Roger http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4168 Roger Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:22:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4168 Regarding the halos around the sun, you're wrong it meant that a particular and rare set of environmental and geophysical events came together to create a very real effect. So it meant something quite real, that the universe is a pretty tripped out place, where fantastic things can and do happen all the time. The evidence is all around us. Regarding the halos around the sun, you’re wrong it meant that a particular and rare set of environmental and geophysical events came together to create a very real effect. So it meant something quite real, that the universe is a pretty tripped out place, where fantastic things can and do happen all the time.

The evidence is all around us.

]]> By: Russ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4167 Russ Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:59:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4167 "..people simply are not familiar with the sky." From "It's a bird it's a plane..." I had to laugh. I was on vacation in the Wisconsin Dells. We, my sister and people from the other cabain when, one of the women from the other cabin aksed "what is that bright object in the sky". We all looked out into the west and say a bright object. I said it's either Venus or Jupiter, I was not sure. No one listened and kept asking ' is a plane or what ?" Agian I said it's Venus. No one wanted to listen. People will beleive what they want to believe. “..people simply are not familiar with the sky.”
From “It’s a bird it’s a plane…” I had to laugh. I was on vacation in the Wisconsin Dells. We, my sister and people from the other cabain when, one of the women from the other cabin aksed “what is that bright object in the sky”. We all looked out into the west and say a bright object. I said it’s either Venus or Jupiter, I was not sure. No one listened and kept asking ‘ is a plane or what ?” Agian I said it’s Venus. No one wanted to listen. People will beleive what they want to believe.

]]> By: Peter Thomassen http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4166 Peter Thomassen Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:24:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2005/03/13/hello-world/#comment-4166 do you need someone to translater your book to greenlandic I have not read it yet because I do not have it but I have download pdf from your homepage I belive that no one have ever been in moon so I really like to let everyone know that nobody have not ever been in moon do you need someone to translater your book to greenlandic
I have not read it yet because I do not have it but I have download pdf from your homepage I belive that no one have ever been in moon so I really like to let everyone know that nobody have not ever been in moon

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