NEW MEMBER? Introduce yourself in this thread.

[Swift]

Hi sneaker, welcome to BAUT

[Chief]

I'm a retired old gaffer with an interest in Astronomy......I'll just be nosing around for awhile.........my best to all of you.

[slang]

Welcome Chief. There's a lot to nose around in here, don't get lost.

[Fendercaster]

I'm Scott, a 58 year old high school educated route driver from Maryland. I don't expect I'll be able to contribute much here; our high school didn't even offer physics, trig or calculus courses. I have always been fascinated by space; I've spent many hours in my 58 years looking at the night sky. I came here to learn, even though a lot of the terminology and mathematical formulas are totally foreign to me. If I ask stupid questions, please indulge my ignorance; I'm trying to keep my brain from turning to mush! Though, if you want to talk Strats or Teles in the off-topic area, I'm good to go!

[mahesh]

Hi Fendercaster / Scott.
Welcome to BAUT.
Sir, no questions asked here at BAUT, we define as 'stupid'!
You'll find plenty of help here. And plenty of fun too.
And plenty to drool over. Once you've ventured into the Astrophotography section of the board.
why does your username, remind me of a guitar?!

[Annodaa]

Hey Everyone,
Glad to have found you, looking forward to discussions and learning more.
Annodaa

[BetaDust]

Hi Annodaa,

Welcome to BAUT! This is a great place for learning and discussion.

Enjoy your stay, I hope you learn a lot!

--Dennis

[R.A.F.]

Originally Posted by Annodaa

...Glad to have found you...

I didn't know you had lost us.

Welcome to the board.

[Jerry]

Originally Posted by Fendercaster

If I ask stupid questions, please indulge my ignorance; I'm trying to keep my brain from turning to mush! Though, if you want to talk Strats or Teles in the off-topic area, I'm good to go!

Anybody with a name like that is welcome to an open minded forum. Questions are like riffs' - you don't know whether it is good or bad until all the music comes together.

I have posted ALOT of stupid questions and a lot of stupid answers...and I have never properly introduced myself either -

I'm a 5-something year old physicist with minors in math and chemistry. I have worked as an analytical chemist, programmer, thermal chemist, system manager, physical chemist, rocket technician, engineer. The funnest projects I have worked on involved building neuro-nets for computer tomography, developing air bag explosives, testing programs for rocket guidance systems, and ultrasonic data collection systems for very powerful lasers. I don't program any more, or very little, but I'm still involved in unique testing and test method development, which I enjoy.

As an alternative theorist (as I am known on this board); I pretty much wear my hat backwards, or sideways, or any way other than the way a scientist normally would. The paradox being that even though I think mainstream theories are wrong to the core; we can use the mathematics and predictions from these theories to successfully engineer space and planetary probes...most of the time.

[slang]

Originally Posted by Jerry

and I have never properly introduced myself either

Welcome to BAUT, Jerry.

[AKDenise]

Hi everyone.

I live in rural Alaska (northern Susitna Valley from mod PetersCreek).

I've had a lifelong interest in astronomy, astrophysics, etc. My poor kids grew up listening to me, but they've also developed at least a minor interest in earth/space sciences.

Yes, I've been "ashed on" recently by our busy little volcano.

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[Swift]

Hi AKDenise. Welcome to BAUT. Good luck with the volcano.

[mike alexander]

We share a birthday year, Fendercaster, so welcome to the monkey house.

[Polestar101]

Hello Bad Astronomy -

This is my first post but I have studied astronomy for many years - especially ancient astronomy and the mechanics of the earth's motion

Someone recently called to my attention to the book "Bad Astronomy" and a problem understanding precession - on page 55, where it says:

"Right now the Earth's north axis points toward the Sun in June. But due to precession, 13,000 years from now - half a precession cycle- the Earth's north pole will point AWAY from the Sun in June and TOWARD it in December. The seasons will be reversed relative to our present calendar."

The author must have been up too late when he was thinking about precession. I assume someone has told him the Gregorian Calendar is designed to track the equinox as close as possible (only losing one day per 3200 years) and therefore the winter solstice will still fall in June in 13,000 years just as it does today (in the Northern Hemisphere).

Cheers

Polestar

[HenrikOlsen]

Originally Posted by Polestar101

The author must have been up too late when he was thinking about precession. I assume someone has told him the Gregorian Calendar is designed to track the equinox as close as possible (only losing one day per 3200 years) and therefore the winter solstice will still fall in June in 13,000 years just as it does today (in the Northern Hemisphere).

From context I suspect you mean summer solstice.

As for the rest, I expect it's a matter of simplifying the explanation to make it easy to get an idea of the concept even though the explanation is wrong¹, another description would be that 13000 years from now, Capricorns will be born in June.


1) By some known as 'lies to children'.

[01101001]

Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen

As for the rest, I expect it's a matter of simplifying the explanation to make it easy to get an idea of the concept even though the explanation is wrong¹, another description would be that 13000 years from now, Capricorns will be born in June.

Flogged, at least, in topic Current Calendar.

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by 01101001

Flogged, at least, in topic Current Calendar.

And can this be the last word on this in this thread - Discuss it by all means in other threads elsewhere by all means, but this thread is for new members to introduce themselves

[cadastron]

As a young person, I looked right and became a land surveyor, but if I had looked left I wonder if I would have become an astrophysicist?

I live in Maine and have always enjoyed physics and astronomy.

[R.A.F.]

Welcome to the board, cadastron.

[bubba444]

Hello all,
So happy to see this site. I am a born again atheist. I live in NYC. Soon to be 40 and live to learn. Am a member, not dues paying, of the NY skeptics. Have been to see the Amazing Randi lecture and read a book or two by M. Shermer.
Found an amazing U Tube video set by a Rhawn Joseph PhD. I was bored and looking for educational material to watch. Found one that was pure science... or it seemed to me. I am not a scientist. Then as I looked at the site further BrainMind.com I found some odd stuff. References to 2012 etc. So I did some looking around. This guy sounds legit but some of his stuff is off the wall. In doing research on him I found no reference on the James Randi site. Then went to Bad Astronomy which led me here. Anyone heard of Dr. Joseph?
Feel free to email me if you are an admin, reply here or send me a note on yahoo chat to reference.

[slang]

Welcome to BAUT, bubba444! A search using the google search box on top of the forum gives many results for Joseph 2012, perhaps what you are looking for is among it? If not, you can ask in the Q&A forum, where more people will read your question.

[raketenflugplatz]

Hi everyone! I'm 37 and I live in Warsaw. I'm learning English and the best method is to read what you're interested in. that's why I'm here I hope you'll be patient with my mistakes

Astronomy is my big love and the the best way to keep right mind balance when whole world is going crazy...

[slang]

Hi raketenflugplatz, welcome to BAUT.

There are many people here from non-English speaking countries, and judging from this post there won't be any problem with that, I'm sure!

[TomBurgessinspace,09]

Hi Im tom but my mate calls me TB (like the illness) i like astronamy who dunt?

see you gize l8r add me if u luv astronomy (if you dont add me yur not a real astronamer)

[geonuc]

Originally Posted by TomBurgessinspace,09

Hi Im tom but my mate calls me TB (like the illness) i like astronamy who dunt?

see you gize l8r add me if u luv astronomy (if you dont add me yur not a real astronamer)

Welcome to BAUT, TB.

If I might make a suggestion? Limit your use of text jargon such as 'l8r'. Most people here prefer not to read it.

[Robinson]

I can't read it. What does "l8r" even mean?

[Robinson]

And does it have anything to do with lulz?

[geonuc]

It means 'later'.

[Robinson]

I really 8 it when I don't get slang.

[HenrikOlsen]

Originally Posted by TomBurgessinspace,09

see you gize l8r add me if u luv astronomy (if you dont add me yur not a real astronamer)

sms-/text-/l33t-speak is discouraged here as a serious impediment to reading especially as many members don't have English as their first language and it's meaningless gibberish to them.

If you want anyone to bother reading what you write, it's your responsibility to write comprehensively.