Comments on: Is the Sun from another galaxy? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/ 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. Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:51:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Edwin Jose Palathinkal http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-99393 Edwin Jose Palathinkal Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:05:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-99393 The inter galactic space is too huge for a star to travel before it burns itself out of fuel. The inter galactic space is too huge for a star to travel before it burns itself out of fuel.

]]> By: skywalker http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40074 skywalker Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:35:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40074 So whats the chances of the leftover gravitational plane of the dwarf galaxy fliping the magnetic poles of our planets as we pass through it? if that hapens when we flush the toilet wont the water spin the other way? or wouldnt it messup our ionosphere and give us all a great tan?the birds and other animals with built in nav systems will be completely confused... So whats the chances of the leftover gravitational plane of the dwarf galaxy fliping the magnetic poles of our planets as we pass through it? if that hapens when we flush the toilet wont the water spin the other way? or wouldnt it messup our ionosphere and give us all a great tan?the birds and other animals with built in nav systems will be completely confused…

]]> By: Elizabeth Anne Ensley http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40073 Elizabeth Anne Ensley Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:51:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40073 "...a native sun..." ROFL! Good one. “…a native sun…” ROFL! Good one.

]]> By: O. Osgood http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40072 O. Osgood Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:40:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40072 I do also want to point out that the ending of the Mayan calendar, or any calendar, doesn't speak to me about the reality of anything except magical thinking, unless there is a track record of Mayan prophecies that can be verified as having been fulfilled or being in the process of being fulfilled in congruence with its dating system. To illustrate this analogously, at the end of every year my calendar runs out -- you know, the one on the wall I keep. Somehow nothing more changes from the last day of the year to the first day of the next year, that I wouldn't expect to change from any one day to the next day. Except that I have to buy a new calendar. Now, if some prophet or prognosticator had predicted that at the end of every year, the price of, say, gasoline would spike 10 cents and then go back down the next day, and it happened every year for ten years like he said, then I could expect the price of gasoline to spike again on the next New Years Eve. Anyway if anyone knows of such a record of Mayan prophecies connected to the calendar and clear fulfillments thereof, let me know. I never seem to find that in "2012" enthusiasm. I do also want to point out that the ending of the Mayan calendar, or any calendar, doesn’t speak to me about the reality of anything except magical thinking, unless there is a track record of Mayan prophecies that can be verified as having been fulfilled or being in the process of being fulfilled in congruence with its dating system.

To illustrate this analogously, at the end of every year my calendar runs out — you know, the one on the wall I keep. Somehow nothing more changes from the last day of the year to the first day of the next year, that I wouldn’t expect to change from any one day to the next day. Except that I have to buy a new calendar. Now, if some prophet or prognosticator had predicted that at the end of every year, the price of, say, gasoline would spike 10 cents and then go back down the next day, and it happened every year for ten years like he said, then I could expect the price of gasoline to spike again on the next New Years Eve.

Anyway if anyone knows of such a record of Mayan prophecies connected to the calendar and clear fulfillments thereof, let me know. I never seem to find that in “2012″ enthusiasm.

]]> By: O. Osgood http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40071 O. Osgood Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:29:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40071 Actually let me restate the mischaracterizations of the scientists studying the issues involved were far more the fault of the Viewzone writer(s), not the original "5 Discoveries" author on Curezone. I do however find the speculation about hotter galactic plasma causing planetary warmings to be, well, that. Speculation. There is far more abundant evidence that the variable Solar wind interaction with the interstellar medium affects the climate of the Earth, with the Sun's variations in particle output being the principle driver of climate change over the last several hundred thousand years, if I read the current state of paleoevidence on this matter correctly. Actually let me restate the mischaracterizations of the scientists studying the issues involved were far more the fault of the Viewzone writer(s), not the original “5 Discoveries” author on Curezone. I do however find the speculation about hotter galactic plasma causing planetary warmings to be, well, that. Speculation. There is far more abundant evidence that the variable Solar wind interaction with the interstellar medium affects the climate of the Earth, with the Sun’s variations in particle output being the principle driver of climate change over the last several hundred thousand years, if I read the current state of paleoevidence on this matter correctly.

]]> By: O. Osgood http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40070 O. Osgood Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:16:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40070 I guess I was late to this party..... I do want to say that I think there are much more valid criticisms of man-induced global warming theory than the authors of the Curezone and Viewzone articles brought up (on closer examination), and the fact that they so badly mischaracterized the original authors of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spherical Galaxy study tempts me to wonder if this was actually a disinformation attempt aimed at man-induced global warming denial theorists, using legitimate science illegitimately to attaint other legitimate science, by association, that isn't popular with much of the scientific establishment of late. Just a speculation on my part. I do think the last thing anyone interested in climatology needs right now are red herrings thrown up without offering evidence, regardless of what one's viewpoint is about that. I guess I was late to this party….. I do want to say that I think there are much more valid criticisms of man-induced global warming theory than the authors of the Curezone and Viewzone articles brought up (on closer examination), and the fact that they so badly mischaracterized the original authors of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spherical Galaxy study tempts me to wonder if this was actually a disinformation attempt aimed at man-induced global warming denial theorists, using legitimate science illegitimately to attaint other legitimate science, by association, that isn’t popular with much of the scientific establishment of late. Just a speculation on my part. I do think the last thing anyone interested in climatology needs right now are red herrings thrown up without offering evidence, regardless of what one’s viewpoint is about that.

]]> By: OCCAM » Sí, estamos en la Vía Láctea http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40069 OCCAM » Sí, estamos en la Vía Láctea Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:38:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy/#comment-40069 [...] sitio web http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy responde razonablemente a la desinformación que ha hecho circular esta “historia [...] […] sitio web http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/06/27/is-the-sun-from-another-galaxy responde razonablemente a la desinformación que ha hecho circular esta “historia […]

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