Comments on: The softly glowing zodiac: lesson learned http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Matt B. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335738 Matt B. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:23:07 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335738 @11 For Marty McFly: A jigawatt is a gigawatt. You see, the first <i>g</i> is supposed to be soft because it's followed by an <i>i</i>. This is a rule in anglicizing Greek. Unfortunately, computer people, who are notoriously bad at English, have managed to change common practice through their use of "gigabyte". @11 For Marty McFly: A jigawatt is a gigawatt. You see, the first g is supposed to be soft because it’s followed by an i. This is a rule in anglicizing Greek. Unfortunately, computer people, who are notoriously bad at English, have managed to change common practice through their use of “gigabyte”.

]]> By: Salvatore De Dominicis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335737 Salvatore De Dominicis Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:26:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335737 This is not strictly related: "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud" by B. May http://books.google.it/books?hl=it&lr=&id=af1X6iX0iCEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR2&dq=zodiacal+light+autore:may+autore:brian&ots=We8E2w3-nL&sig=edNSLdv92XKi8Qb9LKiXZCkvarA#v=onepage&q&f=false The fun thing is that the author is guitarist Brian May from "Queen" fame... Well, probably you already knew :-) This is not strictly related:

“A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud” by B. May

http://books.google.it/books?hl=it&lr=&id=af1X6iX0iCEC&oi=fnd&pg=PR2&dq=zodiacal+light+autore:may+autore:brian&ots=We8E2w3-nL&sig=edNSLdv92XKi8Qb9LKiXZCkvarA#v=onepage&q&f=false

The fun thing is that the author is guitarist Brian May from “Queen” fame…
Well, probably you already knew :-)

]]> By: Musical Lottie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335736 Musical Lottie Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:38:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335736 Cool! Also kudos* to you for putting in type the text in the images of the tweets so that people who use screen readers can also access the text :) *Or other laudatory statement of your choice. Cool!

Also kudos* to you for putting in type the text in the images of the tweets so that people who use screen readers can also access the text :)

*Or other laudatory statement of your choice.

]]> By: mike burkhart http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335735 mike burkhart Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:44:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335735 well no one is perfect and even scientists can make mistakes. I've seen the zodiacal light in some books I've read it is also called the flase dawn because it lookes like the sky just before sunrise. In fact it appers before sunrise. well no one is perfect and even scientists can make mistakes. I’ve seen the zodiacal light in some books I’ve read it is also called the flase dawn because it lookes like the sky just before sunrise. In fact it appers before sunrise.

]]> By: Ricardo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335734 Ricardo Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:16:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335734 @rob #6: Yeah, teach the controversy! I say the dust comes from the paint peeling off of Russell's teapot and your science can't prove me wrong! :-) @rob #6:
Yeah, teach the controversy! I say the dust comes from the paint peeling off of Russell’s teapot and your science can’t prove me wrong! :-)

]]> By: Teacher Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335733 Teacher Al Fri, 13 Jul 2012 16:37:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335733 Phil, you weren't entirely wrong. It's still particulate stuff in space. Not clouds, government experiments, or fairy dust. Phil, you weren’t entirely wrong. It’s still particulate stuff in space. Not clouds, government experiments, or fairy dust.

]]> By: Isaac http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335732 Isaac Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:44:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335732 Not just evolution, Keith, but global warming as well! Not just evolution, Keith, but global warming as well!

]]> By: jcm http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335731 jcm Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:40:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335731 For those interested, the paper is available here (free): http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/713/2/816 For those interested, the paper is available here (free): http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/713/2/816

]]> By: Keith http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335730 Keith Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:57:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335730 So this disproves evolution, right? If science *can* be wrong, then it is *always* wrong, ergo evolution is false. Whew! Glad we cleared that up. So this disproves evolution, right? If science *can* be wrong, then it is *always* wrong, ergo evolution is false. Whew! Glad we cleared that up.

]]> By: SkyGazer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/07/12/the-softly-glowing-zodiac-lesson-learned/#comment-335729 SkyGazer Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:12:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=51009#comment-335729 Ok, now how is this going to kill us? Ok, now how is this going to kill us?

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