Re: [ATM] Read and Weep

["Stars" <rocketmaker@intergate.com>]

Recently in the local opinion page I got in a debate with a "Free Thinker" 
Atheist. He sad the Hubbell Web Site said Galaxies were spinning off new 
galaxies. I searched for his sources based on his quotes and they came from 
the "Free Thinkers Web Ring" . I pointed out that had he actaully visited 
the Hubble Web Site he would have found no reference to anything spinning 
off new galaxies becaus nothing is. That infact if they could come up with a 
photo of a new galaxy forming it would be so far away that it would be and 
old galaxy by now and finally had he really visited that site he might know 
how to spell Hubble. It was also mispelled on the free thinkers website.

See how far things have gone when even the free thinkers aren't?

Sniffle sniffle,
Rick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ozer" <rozer@pacbell.net>
To: "Richard Schwartz" <richard1941@gmail.com>; "ATM" <atm@atmlist.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [ATM] Read and Weep


> The quality of any kind of science reporting has reached an all time
> low.  Here's one I found the other day
> related to the discovery of an exo-planet orbiting 55 Cancri.
>
> "The new planet has nearly the same mass and age as our sun, is "easily
> visible'' with binoculars, and is located in a so-called "habitable 
> zone'',
> a band around the star where the temperature would permit liquid water
> to pool on solid surfaces, Nasa said."
>
> Of course NASA did not say any of that (although I had to check to be
> sure)....
>
> I'm equally sure Nikon didn't say what the NRA reported.  As I recently
> mentioned on another list, bad science reporting, among other things,
> will help send us back to the dark ages...
>
> RO
>
> Richard Schwartz wrote:
>>  America's Freedom Magazine (a publication of the National Rifle
>> Association) has in the November 2007 issue an article, "Nikon: Optics 
>> Are
>> Our Soul".   Read it critically and you will see statements such as 
>> "...the
>> reason a lens is curved is to allow the light to go through the optic in 
>> a
>> straigtht line, which increases brightness.  If an aspherical lens is 
>> used
>> to enhance edge-to-edge clarity, the ability to gather light is 
>> reduced...."
>>
>> Huh?
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