Comments on: Carnival of Space 188 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/13/carnival-of-space-188/ 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. Fri, 25 May 2012 03:07:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/13/carnival-of-space-188/comment-page-1/#comment-367983 Michel Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:20:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=29466#comment-367983 We leave that to the lawyers. First help and than we´ll look into whose plate it was. [/badtaste] We leave that to the lawyers. First help and than we´ll look into whose plate it was.
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]]> By: Melissa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/13/carnival-of-space-188/comment-page-1/#comment-367968 Melissa Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:30:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=29466#comment-367968 Also on the quake topic...the news media keep saying that the plate occurred on the boundaries of the Pacific and North American plates...but if you look at a map of plate boundaries, it looks as though Japan is on the boundaries of the Eurasian, Pacific and Phillipine plates. The western boundary of the North American plate is on the west coast of ...North America. Also on the quake topic…the news media keep saying that the plate occurred on the boundaries of the Pacific and North American plates…but if you look at a map of plate boundaries, it looks as though Japan is on the boundaries of the Eurasian, Pacific and Phillipine plates. The western boundary of the North American plate is on the west coast of …North America.

]]> By: Michel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/13/carnival-of-space-188/comment-page-1/#comment-367967 Michel Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:26:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=29466#comment-367967 Totally off topic but very disturbing. Japan before and after: abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm Just move your mouse over the picture and the new landscape will show itself. Totally off topic but very disturbing. Japan before and after:
abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

Just move your mouse over the picture and the new landscape will show itself.

]]> By: Seth Kurtenbach http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/13/carnival-of-space-188/comment-page-1/#comment-367715 Seth Kurtenbach Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:25:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=29466#comment-367715 Phil, You've got to debunk these conspiracy nuts claiming the sun "went dark" this morning. https://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/u/1/8UnmrwD9Krg Phil,

You’ve got to debunk these conspiracy nuts claiming the sun “went dark” this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/user/dutchsinse#p/u/1/8UnmrwD9Krg

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/13/carnival-of-space-188/comment-page-1/#comment-367697 Messier Tidy Upper Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:55:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=29466#comment-367697 If you've got lots of <i>Curiosity</i> then NASA-JPL want you to return all those missing parts of their Mars Rover : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory (formerly known as the Mars Science Laboratory) ASAP! ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist that - thanks BA. :-) ***** "Curiousity and a drive to understand the cosmos have characterised humanity for as long as we can tell. Our telescopes and space probes are simply the most recent steps in a journey that began many thousands of years before Stonehenge." - Robert Burnham, page 43, <i> "Glorious Universe"</i> in <i>'Astronomy '</i> magazine, October 1991. If you’ve got lots of Curiosity then NASA-JPL want you to return all those missing parts of their Mars Rover :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory

(formerly known as the Mars Science Laboratory) ASAP! ;-)

Sorry, couldn’t resist that – thanks BA. :-)

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“Curiousity and a drive to understand the cosmos have characterised humanity for as long as we can tell. Our telescopes and space probes are simply the most recent steps in a journey that began many thousands of years before Stonehenge.”

- Robert Burnham, page 43, “Glorious Universe” in ‘Astronomy ‘ magazine, October 1991.

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