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http://www.astro.umd.edu/~pierce/drink.html

What better to belt out with your stargazing peers, whilst tossing back a few cold ones?

I don’t see many people calling themselves dork.

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The Wikipedia page for Cuithne notes that :

Three other near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), 54509 YORP, (85770) 1998 UP1 and 2002 AA29, which exist in resonant orbits similar to Cruithne’s, have since been discovered. Source :Wikipedia : Cruithne page.

Oddly enough none of them is the Toro mentioend by Asimov … & one seems not to be in the quasi-moon orbital relationship at present … so I’m still a bit puzzled.

Are those the ones you meant or not BA?

Ands whatever happened to the Toro mentioned by Asimov and is the Saturn V booster counted in the list?

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Nb. Click my name above to go to the “Earth : 10 things” BA thread.

PS. Are we supposed to put the names of peopel we’re responding to or quoting here in bold? Anyone know?

THX for your forebearance y’all ..

I’d reckon :

Looks
Strength – often incl. using brute force
Fashion sense or fads
“Coolness” – a peer group pressure to conform in “rebelling” the same way with the same look.
Sporting ability
Faith & trust (Often in a religious sense, sometimes just in what freinds etc .. say)

What aspects or aqualities are viewed with suspicion or seen as less attractive?

Intelligence, suspicion, skepticism, educational knowledge ..

No wonder we’re in trouble … If our idols are the likes of Paris Hilton and not say Maxwell we’re leaidng oursleves backwards evolutionatily.

If we decide our president is to be an endearing (or not so endearing!) aimable buffoon or an aging war hero, traumatised by his experiences and well past his prime rather than an “elitist” smart guy like say, Al Gore, then we’re deliberately putting stupid people in charge of making the vital decisons that affect – and may even end – our lives.

Why are we so crazy and we don’t we stop and think more -and value thought more. Wish I knew – more than that, I wish it would change.

It shouldn’t be an insult to be smart or bright (there was a whole movement to call athiests that if memeory serves) curious about science and so forth.

It speaks volumes – all bad – about our society that we demean and beliitle intelligence so much & elevate the physical and appearance so greatly over anything else.

The Hyperspace Forums (http://mkaku.org/forums/)

Okay, seriously. AAS just started a forum especially for junior members, but I’ll bet old PhD-toting fogies are welcome as well. We kids (that covers undergrads and grad students who have splurged on membership) need the advice!

What about “dork”?

No matter how you sugar coat it, it represents a ridicule of intelligence, and no matter how much “geeks” try to be proud of the label, it’s still a prime indicator of what is wrong with American culture.

Same goes for “nerd.”

I’d never seriously insult anyone on here…

As Davidlpf says, BAUT forum seems OK with someone attacking ideas (quite vigorously at times), but has close to zero tolerance of ‘attacking the person’.

Galaxy Zoo has a forum too (click on “Forum” on the GZ homepage, or this URL: http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php).

PhysicsForums (dot com) has an Astronomy section; PF is the only open forum covering astronomy (that I know of) which supports LaTeX, so you can get as geeky as you want, with equations etc.

On your head! You mean those kind of insults?

We are on UStream and have incorporated the chat room into our site. There is almost always someone in the room and we like to cover all things space related.

http://www.spacevidcast.com
~Cariann

Some day I’ll be the top “Chris” link in Google. Someday. Muhahaha!