hello friends
can i know why the name of this which was initially universetoday forums which is a nice name....was altered to bad astronomy....i have a great passion on astronomy.....it really frustrating me....sorry if i talked too much due to the great interest in space ...but please give hands to make the astronomy field to go stronger....sites like u were been providing lots of space oriented info to people like me....let the fame of your site continues as before when it was named as universetoday forums...
bye
ashokkumar
(a guy to be in NASA)

universe today forums merged with the bad astronomy forums, the bad astronomy website was started to focus attention on bad astronomy in the literature, news, media, and elsewhere.

And, Ashok, the term "Bad Astronomy" is referring to the examples of bad astronomy that we would like to correct.

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Spike
:)

Moved from Life in Space to About BAUT.

[pedant mode] Actually it was altered to 'Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum', not just Bad Astronomy. If you click on the two icons to the left & right of the title you can see they are still separate websites [end pendant mode]

I think the overall effect of the merger of the two forums has been very positive i.e. introducing visitors of each site to each other & at the same time pulling more traffic to the forums.

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N6MAA10816
Faber '62 ΔTX
Are you a Bright?

And lots of new friends.

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Wasn't there some talk of having a competition to find a new name for the merged forum? Why are we still calling it the BAUT?

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Sit down, you're rocking the BAUT.

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Whats that all a-baut

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Holy Cow...someone that uses "..." more then I do!

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I used to use "..." quite a lot, until a certain person educated me that it didn't mean what I thought it meant. Furthermore, it should of actually of been " ...." sometimes.

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N6MAA10816
Faber '62 ΔTX
Are you a Bright?

Gee...wonder who that was...

I know what it means, but I use it my way anyways.

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Actually spelled "should've"

Actually, no. It should be "it should actually have been". [nitpick off]

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Spike
:)

"Should actually have been" is wrong; "should" is a verb and should go with the other verbs. (I do it anyway, but if you're going to be fussy . . . .)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Then,,, there's those who like to,,, well,,, use something other than "..." ,,,..,,.,.,...,,,

Is that just bad grammar, or is ",,," actually something?

PS I'm not pointing at somebody here but on a different board.

Bad grammar. The only punctuation mark with significance when it's repeated (leaving aside minor exceptions regarding quotation marks and parentheses) is the period. You don't even get more than one exclamation point.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

What I thought, just wanted to make sure there wasn't some obscure rule or exception out there I didn't know about. Thanks.