Starship Asterisk*

Remember it is the earth that is rotating, not the sky background. Picture yourself on a small circle about ten feet from a wall. The constellations are drawn on the wall in an upright position, they don't change. Now picture yourself on the upper half of the small ball (northern hemisphere of earth...

If one makes the assumption that the Ross Ice Shelf melted in its entirety, along with the balance of the other Ice Shelves in Antarctica, then a total of 1,183,590 sq. Km's of ice would melt. Using Rocky's figure for the total area of the oceans and dividing by the total area of the ice shelves in ...

Chris Peterson wrote: "Your comment, however, wonderfully demonstrates the grave risk we face having such a scientifically illiterate populace. We no longer live in a world where a lack of understanding of science (in its true sense, as a method of understanding) can be tolerated." This fr...