Starship Asterisk*

Truly awesome!

Thanks for the citation. It will take a while to penetrate.

Please explain how this makes sense. Two objects are approximateley the same size. The compositions of the objects is similar. The hot one is ten times the mass of the small cool one. With gravity and the ideal gas law we have a problem. Bear in mind that, ignoring gravity and assuming both of thes...

Fusion is the theoretical result of greater density, not the cause of it. We are considering a red dwarf and a gas giant, not a white dwarf and a neutron star. The presence of fusion at the core should expand the outer layers of the star.

Please explain how this makes sense. Two objects are approximateley the same size. The compositions of the objects is similar. The hot one is ten times the mass of the small cool one. With gravity and the ideal gas law we have a problem.

I can't take the time in this post to make the arguments and cite the evidence for the electrical nature of the solar system, I'll get to it. I'd advise against it. Discussion of the electric Universe, plasma cosmology, and other pseudoscience derived from the discredited work of Alfvén is grounds ...

In support of my argument that we really have at best an incomplete picture of the workings of the solar system and the earth, see this article that reveals that during its eruption, the (plasma) plume of MT Redoubt was rotating. This is probably an electrical phenomena. We will be forced eventuall...

Interesting article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-missing-sunspots-is-this-the-big-chill-1674630.html Image of Mercury's Rembrandt Basin with vertical perspective : http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch09/090504secrets.htm In support of my argument that we really have at best ...

and naieve too.

Chris-for a very accomplished and successful man you have a hard time admitting when you are wrong. As when I quoted the model makers themselves. I think its a flaw in your character. You are a very slippery debater, not above quoting somebody's lonely study as gospel until you are called on it. So ...

During the previous AGW debate I made the point that models were estimations based on past data, I called them curve fitting, which they are. I also argued that with enough variables any curve can be fitted, but it wouldn't result in great predictive accuracy. Also that the models didn't take some i...

Check out the helical structure near the edge of the upper, outer band in the photo. Its almost as if it were a toroidal Birkland current.

Cycle 24 sunspeck 1015 looks like its almost gone.

The joke is on all the people who fail to have a full understanding of the science of climatology. I believe in global warming, but I also believe in global cooling. When you begin to remove the impact of the urban heat island effect from the global temperature data you will find that the global te...

... there is a sunspot group developing right now. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mdi_igr/512/latest.jpg Hard to see in white light. It's just visible near the limb at about 2:30. Look at the Ha images (there are some at SpaceWeather). This activity has already been associated with th...

But scientists, who ought to know
Assure us that it must be so
Oh, let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about

Hilaire Belloc

BMAONE23-Great article

I don't wish to appear dense but, reading all the comments pertaining to the picture was very enlightening in regard to exposure but confusing with regard to the camera. Without knowing, it would seem a pinhole camera would be a equivalent to a normal lense. This image is not a fisheye but the disto...

The SBX X band ABM fire-control radar is stationed in Adak, it can track an object "the size of a baseball over San Francisco from the Chesapeak Bay." No reason to believe the Russians are too far behind. Size isn't the factor, but rather accuracy. And the radar fence system used to maint...

Another favorite,due to its obvious bi-lateral symetry, resembling neither explosion or gravitational effects. The structure of the wings resemble nothing so much as a flowing glow mode plasma and Z pinch in the lab. Particularly the feathery ends of the inner sheaths. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/ap...

I was under the impression Russian satellites are manueverable. If so, how do you know it was out of fuel? I woundn't discount the possibility of either side making a statement. The radar systems used by both countries for monitoring the majority of orbiting material are not accurate enough to be u...

Also the point of collision is very well covered by both countries radar suites.

I was under the impression Russian satellites are manueverable. If so, how do you know it was out of fuel? I woundn't discount the possibility of either side making a statement.

There is a deeper point about the nature of models. Every parameter is an estimate in the true sense of the word. If for instance, you were to examine albedo, you may write an equation that uses the earth's average albedo. Then you might get more sophisticated and vary the albedo by season or month ...

Chris- I thought I would check with people who do modelling, this is what they say in their introduction to modeling:..."In the case of state of the art General Circulation Models/Global Climate Models (GCMs) such as the one used in the climateprediction.net experiment, it is more a case of try...

I have never seen a photo quite like this one. Why do the stars not follow parallel paths? Is it the focal length of the lens?