Re: [APML] A sad Time best picture

["Bert Katzung" <katzung1@attbi.com>]

Here's the address of the "letters to the editor" at Time on line:
daily@timeinc.net
I sent them an e-mail about it , everyone else should too.
Bert

Bert Katzung
katzung1@attbi.com
www.astronomy-images.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howell" <paul@howell-ltd.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] A sad Time best picture


> The press unfailingly massacre technical stories. I don't think I have
> ever read an account of a plane crash precipitated by a slow speed
> stall that was not wrongly interpreted to mean that the engines had
> stopped working. Near earth orbit is generally referred to as 'outer
> space'. Events that develop slowly to an unimpressive maximum are
> trumpeted as EVENTS NOT TO BE MISSED. We see this every solar
> perihelion. Meanwhile significant stories are missed altogether.
> 
> I teach a survey class in astronomy as part of being a grad student.
> One day I was illustrating the importance of not mixing units in an
> equation by dividing a measurement in yards by a measurement in feet.
> I pointed to a student and said "now this is obviously wrong because
> there are how many feet in a yard?" This U.S. student who graduated
> from high school said "I dunno". A colleague who teaches a different
> section of the same class posed this question on a test "How many days
> in an Earth year?" Three (college) students got it wrong.
> 
> -P
> 
> > I agree completely. A surprising number of "educated people" don't
> understand that the Earth rotates, or why seasons occur, or even what
> a galaxy is in the most basic sense. Most people also don't known that
> the continents move slowly, or what viruses are, or what PH is, or how
> an aerofoil works, or what's the difference between DC and AC current,
> or what a watt is...
> > --
> > Matt BenDaniel
> > matt@starmatt.com
> > http://starmatt.com
> >
> >
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