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After having done presentations against the Apollo moon "hoax" stuff, listening to SGU all summer, and getting more and more interested in debunking bad astronomy, I've decided to start a blog. I can't call it "Bad Astronomy" for hopefully obvious reasons, so I've called it "Exposing PseudoAstronomy." I hope to have at least weekly entries, though I've started it out with three today.

The blog is here.

I would appreciate it if interested folks would take a look and leave feedback here or on the blog. Let me know what you think, if you have ideas for topics or improvement, etc.

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"Why do something now when you can put it off 'til later?" -- me :)

Nice to hear from you stu, it seems a while.

I have to start off by saying I'm not a big fan of blogs; I don't like the form and style. I took a quick glance at yours and it seems ok, but again, I don't usually read blogs.

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One Earth, One Sky - IYA 2009
All moderation in purple

I actually don't read blogs, either. Go figure.

The idea was originally to include it on the massive revision of my astronomy website that I'm working on, in a new section called "Foundations of Astronomy" and a sub-section of "Pseudo Astronomy."

But, because I'm going to be addressing religion on some of the claims, I wanted to somewhat separate it more from my purely academic astronomy website. A blog format also allows me to be somewhat more informal.

Are you familiar with the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast? The host, Dr. Steven Novella, has a Neurologica blog where he addresses similar stuff, but more related to medicine. And another of the podcast's people, Rebecca Watson, has a rarely updated blog called "Crap-Based Medicine" where she does the same thing. So that's where I really got the idea.

I'm not sure if the blog style is more appropriate than a website style, but the blog format allows me to actually post content as I come up with it rather than have a huge website made in the background before I can post it up.

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"Why do something now when you can put it off 'til later?" -- me :)

Very nice! I wish I had a blog.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

I had one but had a doctor remove it.

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Science fiction was never meant to be an educational tool. - Editor Amazing Tales

So that's where you were, about time you came home--go to your room!!

i thought it was a legal requirement for every person born after 1990 to have a blog..

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It's not exactly difficult to acquire one.

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"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!"

It's one of the perks of being a member of the official Star Wars fan club, so I away for the membership kit back in March, but I never got it!

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

Kai, you can sign up for free blog accounts in lots of places... Google (Blogger), LiveJournal and Wordpress are three I can think of off the top of my head.

CJSF

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Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights
But the city lights got in my way

See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines

-from "See The Constellation"
by They Might Be Giants

you forgot MySpace and facebook..

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"blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."- Nathan Explosion
The.. Best.. Thread..Ever...

I just hope it wouldn't distract me from BAUT!

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

No, I definitely didn't forget MySpace. Facebook, I did. And as I said, there are many - I just noted a few.

CJSF

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Two years ago moved from my town
I was looking up past the city lights
But the city lights got in my way

See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines

-from "See The Constellation"
by They Might Be Giants

i was just adding to your list..
seems like everywhere you turn out in internetland there's a place where someone is spouting of their opinions about this and that..

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"blacker than the blackest black... times infinity."- Nathan Explosion
The.. Best.. Thread..Ever...

Hmm... might be that requirement was written into the Internet act of 1962, as per the email that we received (below) when we failed to deposit an unsolicited check for an items we were selling on Craig's list and then give the excess value of the check to the shipper that was supposed to pick up the furniture we were selling:

Begin forwarded message:
From: tim howard <abake01@gmail.com>
Date: August 14, 2008 3:08:14 PM CDT
To: Janet
Subject: Re: La-Z-Boy reclining sofa, loveseat, chair set - $650 (Cedar Park)

In amagamation with IFCC and FBI. You are reported by......... against
internet fraud and your movement is now investigating by FBI/IFCC. In
accordance with the Internet Act of 1962 stated that any nationals
that engage in the internet fraudulent transaction must be punished.
You must be punished against this act. Y.............WHERE IS THE
MONEY YOU COLLECTED.

You are mandated to report at our court of law on of this month to
defend yourself or settle matter that is existing between you and Mr
ammicably to avoid any future embarrasement. or else i will forward
your all the information that you gave to me hope to red back to me


Cour of Law Address:
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20535-0001



Get back to me with western union/money gram information that you use
to send the money.

Sender's Name.
Amount send
Mtcn Control#(10-digit#) or Referrence number#(8-digit#)

Oh yea, just to be in compliance I just recently started a blog. It's at http://www.ericmarsh.info/Erics_Worl...g/My_Blog.html. My most recent topic was a three part on drag racing motorcycles, but I've also discussed taxes, transhumanism, and why Apple makes the best computers that you can buy. It's got a cool picture of the Sombrero Galaxy in the header too.

Eerie.

Blogs are a social phenomenon that was created and developed by government intelligence agencies.

It is a way of harvesting psychological profiles on a vast number of people, as well as garnering details of day-to-day activities in the event that they need to surveil, arrest, or terminate said subject.

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