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24-December-2005, 07:03 PM
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I loved this book
I think it should be handed out to every high school student. Heck, it should be required reading.
I thought I knew everything about astronomy, so I was surprised (and embarrassed) to find out I'd gotten meteors all wrong, and the Moon Illusion, too... thanks, BA! When's the sequel coming out? (wink wink nugde nudge!) 
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02-January-2006, 02:03 AM
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Heh. I am working on several projects right now, at least one of which is a book.
And thanks! I think it should be bought by every student on Earth. I could retire then.
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02-January-2006, 07:15 PM
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Eventually I'll have more news. I have a lot of stuff I'm working on, and as usual most are in the development stage, which means I won't know anything for a long time, then I'll have a three-day deadline to get some proposal slapped together. Sigh.
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02-January-2006, 08:22 PM
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BTW on Canada's Discovery channel, the show "Daily Planet" quite often does some astronomy stuff. Recently, they have a "street scientist" who goes around and teaches the public some basic physics stuff using simple experiments.
Recently, he did the clockwise/counterclockwise scam on people on the street and they were amazed. He also talked about angular momentum Check it out here (click spiralling water) Pete
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PJE There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.
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