When I was looking for info on Quarks and gravitons for the power of ten thread I happened across Cornell's Ask an Astronomer site and This page was extremely interesting. I'm wondering what the Bad PhDers here would list as the Top ten Astronomy Questions.
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/topten.php
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# What is the life cycle of a star? (viewed 66448 times)
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How do you measure the distance between Earth and the Sun? (viewed 52518 times)
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How do I build a model rocket? (viewed 49362 times)
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What is a white hole? (viewed 33307 times)
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# Will the sun go supernova in six years and destroy Earth (as seen on Yahoo)? (viewed 30458 times)
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I think that one is silly and I don't believe it could be in the top 10
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# What color is each planet? (viewed 27101 times)
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What color is Venus? (viewed 25422 times)
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How far is each planet from Earth? (viewed 22340 times)
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How critical is the Earth-Sun distance in maintaining our average temperatures on Earth? (viewed 21771 times)
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Is the distance from the Earth to the Sun changing? (viewed 20409 times)
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Hopefully I quoted these correctly.
So what are Bad Astronomy's Top Ten Astronomy Questions?
Surely they are not the same.
I am aware that the actual questions change over time so top that come to mind would be fine. In thinking about those Top Ten Questions have you noticed that, over time The questions are changing- are people learning more so that the questions are changing? Are the Questions the same ones as always or are they evolving to a higher level (public getting smarter)
I guess you could say- How successful is the BadAstronomer?