Starship Asterisk*

More than any of the above considerations, I found interesting the way the writer "skirted" around the most important issue of all. He/she wrote: "The Universe is expanding gradually now. But its initial expansion was almost impossibly rapid as it likely grew from quantum scale fluctu...

Wow! You guys don't give up, do you? You actually WANT to display your ignorance? Better to be quiet and learn, rather than let people realize how little you know (factually) and how weird your opinions are. BMAONE23, you wrote: "In the near/far future humankind might just prove to be the trues...

+ Wow! What a bunch of troubled and uneducated people are posting here. Not only are they wrong factually, but they make themselves totally obnoxious (via sarcasm) in revealing their ignorance. Too bad they can't just sit back and learn. Must be a lot of students who are not mature yet. On the contr...

The text for the APoD of March 12 states: "Explanation: This huge ball of stars predates our Sun. Long before humankind evolved ..." Error 1: "humankind". The word is MANKIND. Decent people are not "politically correct," unnecessarily modifying the language to please a ...

I see that my opening post for this thread was not refuted [thank you!], though it was countered by some extraneous material -- a typical tactic of ultra-liberal hand-wringers who want to "cover" for the embarrassed writer of the faulty APoD description (by changing the subject). This thre...

The "Astronomy Picture of the Day" is falsely labeled, "Earth's Shrinking Antarctic Ice Sheet." In reality, the Antarctic ice sheet -- taken as a WHOLE -- is not "shrinking," but is increasing in size. One portion is shrinking, but another (much larger) portion of the s...