I think that, even if it's just for prosperities sake, that we should make a list of everything unique to BABB: In jokes, Personalities, Ranks, Acronyms, ie. Everything that we can think of etc...

I'll update this post with new suggestions, and it'll probably end up pretty big. That's the aim anyway.

Here are some ideas for starters.
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General

The FAQ: Contains all the rules.

Bad TV!, Bad Movies!, No doughnut!
See

Ranks

By number of posts:

0-100: Bad Newbie
101-200 Bad Apprentice
201-300 Bad Intern
301-500 Bad Fellow
501-1000 Bad Grad
1001-3000 Bad Master
3001-5000 Bad PhD
>5001 Bad PostDoc

Special Ranks
The Bad Astronomer- belongs to the owner of forum aka The BA.

Kilopi- See Below

10, 000- Well it seems special to me...

BABB photo album

After an idea of space cadet's, Lycus decided to create a BABB photo album on yahoo photo's. Link
New additions can be posted here.

BABB Chat!

Paltalk
Bad Astronomy Chat!Wolverine has opened a Bad Astronomy Chat group on Paltalk. Paltalk is free voice chat software with text support.

IRC Chat

BABB IRC - Rebirth
irc.sorcery.net:6667 #babb

http://www.iuturna.sorcery.net/index.pl?page=main

the channel is #babb

BOINC
Join BABB teams for Einstein-, orbit-, LHC-, and seti-@home
Announcing new BABB team for Einstein@Home
orbit@home
Get Togethers
TFASUMWBABBDHSEBSSGSTBBQ!!!


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Threads

needs a name
Missing posters
BANNED Posters
BABB Records
The unusual Phenomena that happened to you thread

Historic Moments
Deep Impact has impacted with comet 9P/Tempel 1.
Huygens encounter with Titan

Classic Woo
The "catbox" Face?
Potential Threat to the Huygen Mission
Due South (Low Altitude of the Moon)
The Universal Laws of Gravity and Repulsion
Drs Marsden,Murray,Matese find Velikovskys Visionary PX

Debate debarcles

Never ever ask if 0.9999...= 1
LinkLinkLinkLinkLinkLinkLink
spin off

Games

• Word games
  Love 'em? Hate 'em? Well here they are

Word Association Game
AKA WAG. Created by mainframes, he o[buessly has no idea of what a monster he had unleashed.
The acronym game
Started by mickal555, is considered to need greater thought than the wag so isn't despised of as much.
[b]Person Above You: "Houston, we are go for launch!"
Display's spurts of activity then gradually dies...
Henceforth you shall be known as Darth... erm...
Jason Thompson's fun thread Sustained the WAGers while BABBling was locked.

• Quizzes
  For those who want more thought for their buck

The ULTIMATE astronomy quiz
Greated by Glom after the fall of the first appolo quiz. First person asks a question and whoever gets in right gets to ask the next question(in theory).
The Astronomical Numbers game
By jfribrg. Rules: Each post states the next natural number in sequence, along with an astronomy/space flight connection. As the numbers get larger it gets more difficult.
New Apollo Quiz Game
Greated by PhantomWolf after the fall of the first appolo quiz. Rules:
Answer the previous question (preferably with a link) and if it is called correct by the OP of the question, or seconded as correct by one of our resident Apollo nuts (Jay and Bob) then you post the next question.
Sci-fi + Space Quote contest.
G99 Humphrey: One person will submit a quote from any mainstream sci-fi or space movie (had to of been in the theaters). Whoever is correct gets to ask the next question.
Sci-fi literary quote contest
ToSeek: One person will submit a quote from any Literary source. Whoever is correct gets to ask the next question.

Fun

Astronomy Jokes
Bad Astronomy live chat... where you can actually talk! A read only annoucment. Or so it may seem.
Bad Astronomy can be dangerous... BABBLERS SWITCHED AT BIRTH
Signs You Are a BABB Addict YKYABABBAW- You Know Your A Bad Astronomy Bulletin Board Addict When ...
Merry Christmas See Culture, Poems, for BABB christmas poems.

Misc

BABB to the rescue ! Phil and Bad Astronomy attacked by blog
Scientific Test of Astrology
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Definitions/Explanations

Kilopi
Due to an trend with the word pi a few years back, a poster by the name of Grapes of Wrath decided to change his name at 3142 posts. The term Kilopi was adopted. Kilo= 1000 pi= 3.14... thus Kilopi=3142

The Incarnations follow:

Kilopi: who retired at 3141
mili360: needs explanation
A Thousand Pardons: needs explanation
hhEb09'1: the metric conversion of a mile, upside-down (1.609344 km), yes we do think he's going a bit senile...

When you reach Kilopi it is a reason to celebrate, and you may even get your own thread. Although most people keep their name, a few have decided to change:

Ut: Is now Kristophe
g99: Refers to the floor of not sureand year of graduation of the posters collage, g99 has kilopi'd to the name of a pet turtle, Humphrey. Who is bent on world domination.
mickal555: Decided to keep going as mickal555 but changed to mickal666 for 1 post- to honor the Kilopi.

There is a photo album of people who've gone Kilopi here* It's gone???
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HUb'
Hub and weird posts..
HUb' Even has his own phpBB board See Below
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BABB- The End

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Woo Woo Credo See
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People/Posters
Write a short bio of yourself(no more than about 5 lines) and/or write one of someone else.



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Acronyms
ATM- Against the Mainstream, not to be confused with woo-woo, a subset thereof. Amateur Telescope Makers.

Anti-science- Def.

AFAICT- As far as I can tell

AFAIK- As far as I know

BA - The Bad Astronomer, Bad Astronomy

BTW - By the way

BOCIMBM = But of course I may be mistaken.

BS--Bart Sibrel, a prominent HB. B%^***$T. Bad Science

FWIW--for what it's worth

HB - Hoax Believer. specifically, someone who believes the Apollo landings were a hoax. see also BS.

IOW - in other words (what's wrong with the perfectly useful, workable 'i.e.'???)

IMO/IMOHO- In my opinion/ in my own humble opinion

IIRC--if I recall correctly, if I remember correctly.

LOL - Laughing Out Loud

OOM--order of magnitude.

OP- Original Poster, Opening Post.

OT - off topic

OTOH - on the other hand

PsyudoScience- Def.

PM--private message


TPTB, PTB--the Powers That Be. frequently cited by ATM proponents, often as "they."

TWISI- The way I see it

ROFL- Roll on the floor laughing

ROTFLOL - Rolling of the Floor Laughing Out Loud

Woo Woo- One who promotes anti-science. See Woo Woo Credo

YMMV - Your mileage may vary? It meant that that it is quite subjective.

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Culture

Music

"Solar System Tour" A musical
Music for Solar System Tour!


Poetry

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A BABB POST

The curfew tolls the knell of the parting board,
The lowing poster winds slowly o'er the lea;
The BABBer over final posts has poured,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape of the BABB,
And on all the net, a solemn stillness holds,
Save where BABBlers wheel their droning gab,
And drowsy keyboard tinklings lull the distant folds.

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower,
The BA does to the moon not complain,
Of such as, wandering near his secret bower,
Molest his ancient solitary reign.

Beneath those rugged fora, under ToSeek's shade,
Where heave BABB posts in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his earnest cell for ever laid,
The rude denisens of the BABB do sleep.

The breezy call of ether-breathing dew,
The unsturdy teetering of the idea under test,
Logic's shrill clarion, or the echoing review,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly rest.

For them no more, blazing PX shall burn,
Or busy posters ply the word association game;
No ATMs run on, forever to return,
Or climb by picture a Mons, its slopes to tame.

Oft did the woowoos to their logic yield,
Their comments oft the stubborn HB broke;
How jocund did they drive their science afield!
How bow'd the CTs beneath their sturdy stroke!

Let not GLP mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor NASAScam smear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the pure.

The boast of authority, the pomp of the hoaxer,
And all that superstition e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable to the HB coaxer;
The paths of antiscience appeal only to the depraved.

Yet e'en these posts from insult to protect,
Some frail memorial need be erected nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and well-shaped mirrors deck'd,
Imploring the passing tribute of a sigh.

Their names, their posts, spelt by th' starry Muse,
The place of fame and debate supply;
And many an astronomy text around she strews,
That teach the newbie how to see the sky.

The Epitaph

Here rests the BABB upon the Inet's Earth,
A youth to Fortune and to Fame an unknown one.
Fair Science frowned not on its humble birth,
But mergers marked it soon to be gone.

By Maksutov

That was so dang pretty.

From whence can come a reply to this lament?
For after much crying, , my strength is spent
Nevermore, nevermore
came the daunting woe from the crow
For our past is nearly lore
As it is time for us to go

Hark, do I hear a "Dagnabit"
It sounds like the BA, our Abbit
"Metamorphsis" I think I hear him say
Must be time for all of us to change
For a new dawn that is on the way
And we can now extend our range

Arise us silky, sullen, son-of-a-guns
No more weeping, that ain't no fun
Surely this board has a right to grow =D>
yet, there is still that old crow.
by George

Rime of the Physics Student

It’s late at night, my mind is weary,
Eyes are bloodshot, vision’s bleary,
I know not what I’m really thinking,
My sanity’s surely winking.
Yet I stay up for I am not done,
With homework for P121.

My mind’s back from temporary lull,
And contemplates a bouncing ball,
Then reason shouts out, with great diction,
“Idiot! You forgot friction!”
So I cross out numbers written there
And hang my head in great despair.

I am at a loss and panicked too
Because I don’t know what to do!
I factor out “t,” I integrate,
But the mistakes do not abate.
I feel like a failure and a fool…
What’s life like in the business school?

But I see through that confusing mist,
After all I’m a physicist!
I know the movements of block and book
Using Laws from Newton and Hooke,
I know a bowling ball’s energy
Based on its squared velocity.

I now see myself years down the line
Where physics glory is all mine,
The secret of dark matter I know
Having found the neutrelino.
My proof is so clear and it’s so bold
I win myself some Swedish gold!

But as I start my acceptance speech,
I hear a harshly ringing screech.
A startling thought to my mind does creep:
Oh my God I’ve fallen asleep!
It’s eight in the morn, not late at one
And my damned homework’s still not done!

I stare at my paper with a frown
And jot some garbled numbers down,
And before I can think any more
It’s in my bag; I’m out the door,
And as I’m walking I pray my best
That problem won’t be on the test!

By Andromeda321

Christmas

My Christmas was not merry, no it was not.
With dry turkey, sloppy greens
and a gravy like snot.
But tonight I returned home
and what did I see?
A real Christmas goose
cooked by my housemate
and offered to me.
And with Boddington's Ale left by a guest,
I warmed my insides with only the best.
So with a fatty bird,
a good beer
and a dressing done right,
I bid you all a Merry Christmas
and to me a good night.

By HerrProfessorDoktor


To the BABBers:

May the wonders of the heavens continue to inspire
folks like yourselves, people I admire,
Such as, galaxies and dark matter which stir your minds
and how the planets behave (but no fear when they align!),
Continue the :-? and , the "ahhs" and the "ooohs"
from Hubble and Spitzer, to name but a few,
producing wonderful images - magnificent views

May your work reveal your wisdom, though ya'll do make me dizzy,
your study of SR and GR go relatively easy,
May the posts be articulate and the puns diminish - :wink: (wink)

And your evidence prove the sun's not "peachy pink"!
And let us not forget our own "Dr. Phil", our BA
Who has brought us here in a kindly & scientific way
[Where we can hear things like..."The Beagle has landed", hopefully, today. Edit
That would have been nice. Of course, they still deserve some credit. [-( ]

I hope your Christmas was grand, and your presents delightful
a reprieve from debunking all those things feared frightful
New Year's partys are next, though we are not quite at perihelion
(you'll ignore that point if you're dressed as a cameleon)
May you have many, many laughs, in number at least a million.

Then back you'll come to discuss what's been posted
Hopefully, your conclusions will be toasted and rarely roasted
So much is happening and in so many places
Water signs on Mars and all those faces
Yeah hah, Huygens probe will soon go through it's paces

Yep, much is coming dead ahead
So, think of some of what I've said
your posts will likely make me wiser each day
Thanks to you, I've learned much of the astronomy way
Hmmmm, in fact, you think I could "advance place" BA?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

By George

Other Web-sites

[b]Bulliton Boards(Forums)[b]

[b]Skeptical[b]
James Randi Educational Foundation Forums
The Skeptics Society Forum
ApolloHoax.net

Babbler's
Usally Created by BABBlers and a place that contains BABBlers.


FWIS
Origonally A forum to discuss things that wouldn't be allowed in BABB- has grown and serves other purposes aswell now.

[url=www.scotsons-shack.com/Forum]Scotsons Shack The best site on the internet. plug plug plug... It's down atm but I'm working hard to get it going again

Illuminati-R-Us
Forum to make fun of Woo-Woo's particually GLPers.

HUB's Forum- pdx... Enter, and accept the chalenge of interpreting all the HUb' post's you could ever want. Leave a message too- as HUb' get's quite lonly over there

if you would like your forum added(I know I've missed alot) and your a BABBler just let me know and I'll add it-please give it a short description

Woo Woo's
From the delusional

God Like Productions(GLP)
Alway's remember- there is nothing godlike about the productions going on at GLP. Enter at own risk.
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BABB- the Beggining's

BABB- The End
IT's been quite a ride- *wipes away tear*

see you on the other side...

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Good luck with that one... :P

with regards

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Yeah- well I've been putting that one off. :wink:

I dp know of one person who could probobly explain, much better than I ever could...
Candy knew HUb' best but she is no longer with us, any other help would help though...

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Does anyone else have any idea's for a BABB guide.

we only have a couple of day's!

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Actually, Mick, I think that
is really all you need to say there...
8)

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"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." - Isaac Asimov

We need a warning somewhere that you should never ever ask if 0.9999...= 1.00000....

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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

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Everything I need to know I learned through Googling.

How about adding the Astronomical Numbers Game to the games list. Its my only claim to fame on this board.

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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

You sure it shouldn't be...defies explanation. :wink:

Other culutural aspects....wow, there's so much.
There is the Babber support I've received with the invention of a new kind of solar instrument (SPACC and SAD). Where else could I have found support?
There are a BadAstronomy poems around here (Andromeda did one)
Speaking of her, she's our child prodigy growing up around here and looking sharp, thanks to all of our help, of course. :wink:

[hold for a tear 'cause I think I'm gonna cry.. ]

Time for an Ode? [needs expression]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board!

Done done.

PS. I plan to fix up the formatting and spelling when it's not 11:54pm

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Hmm I'll try to hunt around for poems
SPACC and SAD
Do you want to write an entry for Andromeda321? Being younger I dunno If I can really...

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

What happens when someone asks if .999...=1? Will the very fabric of the space-time continuum rip? Did I even spell 'continuum' right?

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here we go, the world is spinning
when it stops, it's just beginning

sun comes up, we laugh and we cry
sun goes down, and then we all die

Touched by his noodly appendage

Possibly

but what is known though is

Multiple BANNING
UnBANNING'S
50+ pages
6+ threads
Stress for the BA

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

I give 6 points to the scoring turtle. :wink: [but that's an old story]

Mickal555, I'll try an find the poems and give links for SPACC & SAD.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board!

Don't forget the two games over at bad movies: Scifi movies and scifi books.

Itc sommon knoledge that all mathematicians have been denying the ture nasture of the universe for a bery long time. 1 is not a single digit but a round off number consisting of 0.9999999999........99999999x10E^99. But for simplicity sake they rounded it off to one.
Don;t ask about the true value of Pi. Its a long story filled with death, corruption, and a few McDonalds happy meals.

That'd be great- thanks

I'll go off to grab them now

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

thanks Mick. Amazing job. :-)

Some Poems..

Physics student poem: here

What about those Christmas moments? Christmas thread

And Christmas poems… poem 1 and poem 2

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board!

ELEGY WRITTEN IN A BABB POST

The curfew tolls the knell of the parting board,
The lowing poster winds slowly o'er the lea;
The BABBer over final posts has poured,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Now fades the glimmering landscape of the BABB,
And on all the net, a solemn stillness holds,
Save where BABBlers wheel their droning gab,
And drowsy keyboard tinklings lull the distant folds.

Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower,
The BA does to the moon not complain,
Of such as, wandering near his secret bower,
Molest his ancient solitary reign.

Beneath those rugged fora, under ToSeek's shade,
Where heave BABB posts in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his earnest cell for ever laid,
The rude denisens of the BABB do sleep.

The breezy call of ether-breathing dew,
The unsturdy teetering of the idea under test,
Logic's shrill clarion, or the echoing review,
No more shall rouse them from their lowly rest.

For them no more, blazing PX shall burn,
Or busy posters ply the word association game;
No ATMs run on, forever to return,
Or climb by picture a Mons, its slopes to tame.

Oft did the woowoos to their logic yield,
Their comments oft the stubborn HB broke;
How jocund did they drive their science afield!
How bow'd the CTs beneath their sturdy stroke!

Let not GLP mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor NASAScam smear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the pure.

The boast of authority, the pomp of the hoaxer,
And all that superstition e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable to the HB coaxer;
The paths of antiscience appeal only to the depraved.

Yet e'en these posts from insult to protect,
Some frail memorial need be erected nigh,
With uncouth rhymes and well-shaped mirrors deck'd,
Imploring the passing tribute of a sigh.

Their names, their posts, spelt by th' starry Muse,
The place of fame and debate supply;
And many an astronomy text around she strews,
That teach the newbie how to see the sky.

The Epitaph

Here rests the BABB upon the Inet's Earth,
A youth to Fortune and to Fame an unknown one.
Fair Science frowned not on its humble birth,
But mergers marked it soon to be gone.

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A person's name, or a mark representing it, as signed personally or by deputy, as in subscribing a letter or other document.

As long as we're talking about poems, we might as well mention NZBornGal's Solar System musical.

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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

What's that?

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Did I at least spell 'continuum'right?

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here we go, the world is spinning
when it stops, it's just beginning

sun comes up, we laugh and we cry
sun goes down, and then we all die

Touched by his noodly appendage

Nope, sorry.

"continuum"

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Relight the 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)

Here and
Here

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Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

[edit: That was so dang perrrtty. ]

From whence can come a reply to this lament?
For after much crying, , my strength is spent
Nevermore, nevermore
came the daunting woe from the crow
For our past is nearly lore
As it is time for us to go

Hark, do I hear a "Dagnabit"
It sounds like the BA, our Abbit
"Metamorphsis" I think I hear him say
Must be time for all of us to change
For a new dawn that is on the way
And we can now extend our range

Arise us silky, sullen, son-of-a-guns
No more weeping, that ain't no fun
Surely this board has a right to grow =D>
yet, there is still that old crow.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board!

Thanks, wasn't sure.
I'll go back to those posts and fix them.

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here we go, the world is spinning
when it stops, it's just beginning

sun comes up, we laugh and we cry
sun goes down, and then we all die

Touched by his noodly appendage

Aww you guys are so nice.
And mikal, much as I like ya you have waaaayyy too much free time! :P
Though as long as we're compiling interesting threads and poems and such, mind if I add this one as well? I've always liked it myself. :wink:

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Yes, I have a life. It's quite different from yours.

Very nice bits. Sure, the core of the BABB will be back, but you can't help but feel a bit nostalgic.



Please don't forget: Last one out, turn off the lights! :-({|=

Hey George, like your new sig.

with regards

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