Nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion!

Our main weapon is surprise, and a fanatical devotion to critical examination of conspiracy claims. Our two main weapons...

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"Slapping a guy on the head is just as funny now as it was eighty years ago."

Stop saying the word! The word the Knights of Ni cannot hear!

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It

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

Look, no more Monty Python references, or the mods will put you in the comfy chair and use pillows on you!

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At night the stars put on a show for free (Carole King)

I blame myself for this...

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.

It's ok, Bruce.

- Bruce


(Alright, that's the last one. I promise.)

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THIS... is an EX-thread!

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Bring back Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

So do I.

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"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." St. Exupery

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I arrived to late for this thread....





Oh Bugger!

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And while with silent,lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
put out my hand and touched the face of God. JGM

The above quote has no religious significance whatsoever

How can there be fraud when folks have such
brillient calculators to figure things out?
When I were a lad I just had two sticks with
markings on to rub together to get answers.
But it were a calculator to me!

Sheer luxury. You were lucky to have two sticks.

I had it hard.

This is my only line!

The COBE background radiation experiments are part of a continuous line of reasoning used in an attempt to descredit the ideas of Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle. He proposed the radiation is from small metallic particles distributed through space. The issue goes back to the big bang versus steady state universes. New evidence challenges Hubble's constant rate of expansion. Some parts of the universe are contracting. Others are expanding at variable rates.

Hoyle was descredited by NASA and establishment astronomy because he presented evidence that interstellar space is populated by encysted microbes, some of which have populated Earth and may continue to be carried to Earth via various infected space vehicles. Hence the need for cover-up and marginization of Hoyle's ideas.

It's what invariably happens when we're left to ourselves for too long, you know.

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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!"

Who is Bruce?

-- Jeff, in Minneapolis

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http://www.FreeMars.org/jeff/

"The other planets?
Well, they just happen to be there, but the point of rockets is to explore them!"
-- Kai Yeves

Ah, no, not really. NASA doesn't discredit people, though some people employed by NASA find scientific evidence that Hoyle was wrong. But it doesn't matter who employed what mattered was the quality of the quality of their evidence.

Oh-- it also matters that Hoyle was wrong. He was wrong about a lot of things. Of course, he was right some things as well, which begs the question-- why hasn't someone tried to discredit those ideas? Like, Burbidge, Burbidge, Hoyle and Fowler-- the paper that they published figuring out how nuclear fusion works in stars? That paper is a landmark, and astronomers still refer to it today.

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Phil Plait
The Bad Astronomer
http://www.badastronomy.com
badastro@badastronomy.com

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Howling from the Shadows

It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

And Bruce here runs the sheep dip

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

Thats even better than the hollywood bowl version

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

This thread is getting entirely too silly.

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"Earth diameter is 7,900 miles, and Moon diameter is 2,160 miles. It takes on average 90 minutes to complete one Earth orbit, so one Moon orbit should take roughly 25 minutes." - Sam "NasaScam" Colby

Bearer of the highly coveted "I found Venus in nine Apollo photos" sweatsocks.

DataCable^2008 A+

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