Comments on: Introducing the Bad Astronomy Blog

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:53:24 +0000

Greetings! I am from the future and predict that on June 24th, 2010 at 1:42 pm you will post your 5000th entry. Please notify Randi that I wish to collect his $1 million in small, unmarked bills.

By: IVAN3MAN AT LARGE

IVAN3MAN AT LARGE — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:42:00 +0000

Eric Johnson:

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.

Obviously, Eric Johnson has not taken a physics class: Black-body radiation.

By: Thaiboxerken

Thaiboxerken — Thu, 19 May 2005 21:33:33 +0000

You obviously didn’t read the entire article. A space probe actually landed on a comet and found water!!

By: Erik Johnson

Erik Johnson — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 15:40:50 +0000

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

Barry Johnson — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 06:03:43 +0000

Welcome to the blogosphere, Phil. You’re a welcome addition to my blogroll.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:52:44 +0000

Podcast… please do a podcast. It’s not that difficult… honest it’s not.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:22:49 +0000

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

Russ — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:59:51 +0000

“..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

Peter Thomassen — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:24:07 +0000

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

By: CERDIP

CERDIP — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:37:50 +0000

To me it reads: “Bah-Blog”, kinda like “Ka-Boom”.

Which is a Good Thing.

By: Michelle Rochon

Michelle Rochon — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:45:02 +0000

Huzzah! The Bad Astronomer will now post more regularly! My dream come true! I was starting to miss your writing, sir!