I hadn't thought of that. You're probably right.

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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!"

Universe: Dark Matter...I finally watched it last night.

They threw the words "millions" and "billions" around like they were an expression of an incredibly large amount that we can't count.

For example:
-There are millions of axions in the universe.
-Billions of neutrinos pass through the Earth each second.
My guess is that they are a few magnitudes off.

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They threw the words "millions" and "billions" around like they were an expression of an incredibly large amount that we can't count.



Notation would make Joe Publics brain hurt

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Instead they make my brain hurt.

I just think they could of either used a word that's not that quantifiable (like "unimagionable", "countless", "lots"), or chose a smaller sample set like (teaspoon, square inch).

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Tonight's The Universe had a really remarkable blunder in it. As methods to change the Earth's orbit were being discussed, the graphic showed the Earth rotating the wrong way.

Want to see the Sun rise in the West? Here's how to do it!

Note for dial-up folks: 411KB file.

Then there were other blunders, but that's another post.

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There's a series on the Discovery Channel here called "Bone Detectives", featuring an American archaeologist. I wouldn't normally watch something like that, but an episode recently was centered around Iron Age Orkney - which is a nice geographical and time match for my main archaeological interests.

The dig he was visiting was on an island called Westray. He got there by getting a lift in a fishing boat, and then rowing himself ashore, while commenting on the remoteness.

"Why didn't he just get the plane?" asked my wife, "Or the regular ferries?" I added.

That's the reason why I "wouldn't normally watch something like that", needless, made up drama, and wildly inaccurate external representation.

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