Re: [APML] A sad Time best picture

["Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Excellent Bert.  Make that two emails.

Chris


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Chris Cook
Astronomical Photography
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Katzung <katzung1@attbi.com>
To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] A sad Time best picture


>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
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>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
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>> 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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