Comments on: Catchup

By: themadlolscientist

themadlolscientist — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:40:26 +0000

the closest thing any of us will get to a light saber

ROFLing my asteroid off!

BTW, anyone out there know a good rock-and-gravel hauler? I’ve got this 10,000-pound smoking hot rock in my parking lot. Funny, it wsn’t there yesterday evening. I can’t wait to see how much TNT it will take to blow it up so they can haul the pieces away…………

By: Nigel Depledge

Nigel Depledge — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:18:03 +0000

Hannu Siivonen said:
“Why are so many boneheads antiscientists?”

That’s a really good question. I might even go so far as to say there’s a research project there for an anthropology or sociology PhD.

By: Hannu Siivonen

Hannu Siivonen — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:33:33 +0000

“Why are so many antiscientists such boneheads?”

You’re asking wrong question here. It should be reversed.

Why are so many boneheads antiscientists?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:09:55 +0000

Michael Lonergan,

Yeah, I understand people being rude in the comments. It’s hard to find any site that allows comments where people don’t find *something* to bicker about, so I just overlook it. I remember someone mentioning that the blog was rude, and for me it translated to “what Phil wrote was rude.” That’s where my confusion came in. Don’t mind me, I’m new and I have my airhead moments. =)

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:31:11 +0000

Evolving, maybe you could use it on the errant spy satellite.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:47:35 +0000

I have a 105 mW green laser from Wicked Laser. Lots of fun, but not for use without safety goggles.

By: Quiet_Desperation

Quiet_Desperation — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:26:07 +0000

Phil, I have a possible entry for your “WANT!” category.

http://www.i4u.com/article14324.html

It’s a flashlight.

It can set paper on fire and melt plastic. It can fry an egg!

4100 lumens. Sucks the batteries dry in 15 minutes.

A measly $300 for the closest thing any of us will get to a light saber.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:57:52 +0000

Just found it, 12:30 AM. Here’s the link for converting UTC time:

http://www.spacearchive.info/utc.htm

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:55:02 +0000

Sergio, it will make it’s closest approach at 08.33 UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time), I’m not sure what that translates to West Coast time. Anyone else know?

By: Sergio

Sergio — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:45:08 +0000

Does anyone know what time tu-24 will past west coast time?

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:22:32 +0000

Folks, Ben/Shelly/whatever is a simple troll. Please ignore him/her/it, as the comments are all getting flagged as spam. Thank you.

By: Kepler2

Kepler2 — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:05:57 +0000

Judging by how most people in this world act, maybe we need a
good smack from a passing space rock now and then.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:53:29 +0000

Elizabeth, I think the rudeness comes in when people obviously trolling come in and make comments with all kinds of foul language. Phil has repeatedly stated that all he requires to post is, don’t be rude. It was really evident in his previous post about Asteroid 2007 TU24, where many people came on using all kinds of foul language. Many people allow their kids on here to learn about science, so I can understand his frustration.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:50:38 +0000

I don’t understand how this is a rude blog. I can understand Phil’s aggravation though. Misinformed people making videos on youtube and throwing together websites for the sole reason of spreading the misinformation. . .and what gain does it have? None, other than scaring people and creating more misinformed people to go out and do the same thing.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:12:01 +0000

Ben, a Troll is someone that makes posts just for the sake of argument, and tries to draw others into an argument. The best tactic is to completely ignore them and when they see that people will not respond, they will go away and try it with someone else.

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:10:25 +0000

MICHELLE ( OR ANYONE ) WHAT’S A TROLL ON BLOGS?

Something to ignore as there no such thing as a troll.

P.S. Ignoring something will not make you ignorant, well… I guess ignoring your teacher will.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:54:03 +0000

I also think it’s pretty safe to say now that if you’re STILL scared that TU24 will zap us or affect the magnetic field or still hit us or whatever other nonsense there is… Well it’s just that you’re stubborn, didn’t do one ounce of research (on credible websites) and probably WANT to be scared.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:53:49 +0000

Obviously I’m not in the “Big Leagues” yet, but I did get interviewed by a local radio station regarding the Stephenville, TX UFO’s last week.

Unfortunately, I was under-prepared for some of the call-ins we got, especially in relation to Roswell and Phoenix, which came up during the discussion of the recent event. I didn’t say anything wrong or stupid, but my memory of some of the details was too fuzzy to mount a good counter-argument to the True Believers. I hope to do more of it though, I felt like BA-Jr out there in a sea of woo.

I didn’t even get to talk about science, either, I had planned to spend time on MESSENGER and Manned Spaceflight. Oh well, maybe “next time”.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:52:07 +0000

Oh gosh. Grow up yourself, Shelley. You’re being a troll.

He gave plenty answers and understanding. I think it’s about time to say “Stop it, read all the other posts where he says THERE’S NO DANGER. Now, YOU CAN COME OUT OF THE BASEMENT AND LIVE!”

By: Daffy

Daffy — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:51:07 +0000

I don’t usually comment on others’ grammar but, really, Shelley, if you are going to call people ignorant, you would do well to study an elementary school English book. Even a dictionary might help.

By: Sam Ogden

Sam Ogden — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:16:43 +0000

I saw the King program as well, but everything was a bit foggy, because I was watching the rebroadcast early on a TAM Saturday morning. From what I could tell, Shermer was as good as usual, and Larry Kings remains the creepiest looking thing on TV.

By: brett

brett — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:15:19 +0000

will this be visible? if so where and when?

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:00:56 +0000

Barton, I think if we ignore the uninformed they will just go away. They obviously crave attention. Just don’t give them the time of day. It’s not worth it. There are far too many intelligent people on this site that have much to offer to let a few misfits ruin it.

By: Michael Lonergan

Michael Lonergan — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:58:18 +0000

I caught that interview and I thought all sides presented very good points. I thought Michael Shermer was very respectful of the other guests. The only one that I had a problem with was James Fox, producer of Out of The Blue, as he was continually interrupting Shermer. I thought the two ex Military officers raised some interesting points as well. There is clearly much that we do not understand about the whole UFO phenomena. I do agree with Shermer, when he says that we should examine all of the evidence before we build a world view around it.

By: Barton Paul Levenson

Barton Paul Levenson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:55:22 +0000

Shelly writes:

[[wow your ignorant ]]

His ignorant what? And what did it do?