Comments on: Aliens build a galaxy! http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-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. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:57:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sean d http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72793 sean d Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:41:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72793 noooo I did it with my quantotempral transporter noooo I did it with my quantotempral transporter

]]> By: Buzz Parsec http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72831 Buzz Parsec Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:59:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72831 Slartibartfast. Yes, really. Slartibartfast. Yes, really.

]]> By: themadlolscientist http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72830 themadlolscientist Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:25:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72830 A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away........ @ Dan: What was the name of the guy who wanted to put fjords on Africa? A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away……..

@ Dan: What was the name of the guy who wanted to put fjords on Africa?

]]> By: Eric http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72829 Eric Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:37:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72829 Ok, I am going to say that India Daily just has their own little World Weekly News section, and this article must have come from it. I mean the writing isn't quite as good as the articles about BatBoy, but it is a start. Ok, I am going to say that India Daily just has their own little World Weekly News section, and this article must have come from it. I mean the writing isn’t quite as good as the articles about BatBoy, but it is a start.

]]> By: GSC http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72828 GSC Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:42:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72828 Hi people I read this daily but this is my first post at BAB so forgive me if i am doing anything wrong. I think the people that wrote the article might be referring to ideas and theories that are studied by Michio Kaku, is it ok to post a link? if so: http://www.mkaku.org/ I have read his book called "Parallel Worlds" and in the end of the book he writes about the type I to V civilizations and what they could do in terms of energy use, a type iV could use the energy of a galaxy and create "big bangs" and so on....nice read but take this read with a bit of opened mind : ) Mr. bad astronomer i am sure would LOVE his ideas about science and god....but if you skip this "details" the book is pretty good read. Best regards from Lisbon G. Hi people

I read this daily but this is my first post at BAB so forgive me if i am doing anything wrong.
I think the people that wrote the article might be referring to ideas and theories that are studied by Michio Kaku, is it ok to post a link?
if so: http://www.mkaku.org/
I have read his book called “Parallel Worlds” and in the end of the book he writes about the type I to V civilizations and what they could do in terms of energy use, a type iV could use the energy of a galaxy and create “big bangs” and so on….nice read but take this read with a bit of opened mind : )
Mr. bad astronomer i am sure would LOVE his ideas about science and god….but if you skip this “details” the book is pretty good read.
Best regards from Lisbon
G.

]]> By: Chip http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72827 Chip Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:04:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72827 My informal newspaper survey: Most intelligent writing in USA - New York Times - especially the arts section. (Rush Limbaugh listeners and others lacking in critical thinking tend to hate it and can't get past the editorial pages.) :D Dullest in USA - Wall Street Journal. Most informative on Middle East news (according to Seymour Hersh) - Haaretz Among the best online - Salon.com Possibly least amount of mistakes in science news for a non-scientific journal - Los Angeles Times and New York Times. My informal newspaper survey:

Most intelligent writing in USA – New York Times – especially the arts section. (Rush Limbaugh listeners and others lacking in critical thinking tend to hate it and can’t get past the editorial pages.) :D

Dullest in USA – Wall Street Journal.

Most informative on Middle East news (according to Seymour Hersh) – Haaretz

Among the best online – Salon.com

Possibly least amount of mistakes in science news for a non-scientific journal – Los Angeles Times and New York Times.

]]> By: Regner Trampedach http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/comment-page-1/#comment-72826 Regner Trampedach Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:00:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/26/aliens-build-a-galaxy/#comment-72826 Great fun, Phil! It seems, though, that everybody here misinterpreted the sentence "According to scientists this was the start of ‘dark ages’..." - which was most surely the intention of the "Indian Daily"'s "journalists". If you stop where my quote stops, they are very correct. The time just after the Big Bang was dark - lots of neutral gas which is efficient in blocking light. As the first stars came along, they ionized the gas around them and evetually these ionized bubbles merged and the Universe was transparent - just as it is today. That was the end of the dark age. Conclusion: They are not lying about what science has taught us, but there are employing spin, worthy of the White House. Cheers, Regner Trampedach Great fun, Phil!
It seems, though, that everybody here misinterpreted the sentence
“According to scientists this was the start of ‘dark ages’…” – which
was most surely the intention of the “Indian Daily”’s “journalists”.
If you stop where my quote stops, they are very correct. The time
just after the Big Bang was dark – lots of neutral gas which is efficient
in blocking light. As the first stars came along, they ionized the gas
around them and evetually these ionized bubbles merged and the
Universe was transparent – just as it is today. That was the end of the
dark age.
Conclusion: They are not lying about what science has taught us, but
there are employing spin, worthy of the White House.
Cheers, Regner Trampedach

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