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Old 05-11-2013, 08:15 AM
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Mars smoke screen?

Hi, anybody seen this?....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQyvisg1f0
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Old 05-11-2013, 08:33 AM
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I see Landover are hard at work again...
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Old 05-11-2013, 08:36 AM
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So, the US government shut down in response to Obama's buffoonery was all a conspiracy to stop letting the world know about Comet Ison apparently harming (electrically, as he says), Mars.

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Old 05-11-2013, 11:29 AM
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:35 PM
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What I find really disturbing is when I go to youtube and put "ISON" in the search, I find nothing but doomsday and conspiracy videos. Same goes for any asteroid, comet or astronomical event. The ratio of nutters to sane people on youtube seems all out of proportion. Perhaps it's the hit counter that drives the madness. After all everyone wants 10 bazzillion hits to brag about!
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Old 05-11-2013, 12:56 PM
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The idiot should spend more time collimating his 8" telescope & not use it in bad seeing.
It's hard to get a gun license, but any idot can use youtube & a telescope.
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Old 05-11-2013, 01:51 PM
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I wouldn't even give this trash legitimacy by watching it. The guy is a nutcase, fantasy prone and attention seeking.
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Old 05-11-2013, 02:09 PM
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Lol, what an idiot.
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Old 05-11-2013, 03:59 PM
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Mars Smoke Screen

See attached YouTube clip....I don't know how accurate this clip is.

If correct and a big IF...the entry and exits of comet ison through earths orbital plane is interesting.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcysR6M57M

Yes I had 15mins to kill from work......so don't get nasty

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Old 05-11-2013, 04:33 PM
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Ho Hum!

Most of those shots are how I normally see mars. It needs good seeing to see the "canals" at any time.

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Old 05-11-2013, 04:38 PM
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Idiot needs a reality check.
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Old 05-11-2013, 04:40 PM
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What I find really disturbing is when I go to youtube and put "ISON" in the search, I find nothing but doomsday and conspiracy videos. Same goes for any asteroid, comet or astronomical event. The ratio of nutters to sane people on youtube seems all out of proportion. Perhaps it's the hit counter that drives the madness. After all everyone wants 10 bazzillion hits to brag about!
Doomsday? Bring it on, I need the rest
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Old 05-11-2013, 04:57 PM
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What I find really disturbing is when I go to youtube and put "ISON" in the search, I find nothing but doomsday and conspiracy videos. Same goes for any asteroid, comet or astronomical event. The ratio of nutters to sane people on youtube seems all out of proportion. Perhaps it's the hit counter that drives the madness. After all everyone wants 10 bazzillion hits to brag about!
Unfortunately this type of nonsense also extends to well known sites such as Phys.org. The comments section for the Astronomy and Astrophysics articles in particular are overrun by cranks typically from the electric universe looney brigade who get free publicity for their moronic ideas. It has led to Popular Science shutting down its comments section due to the constant sabotaging of articles.

The tragedy is that many readers "learn their science" from the comments section which was the main reason for Popular Science closing it down.

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Old 05-11-2013, 05:23 PM
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Hey Rom....just for the record....who is the idiot...this is all fun stuff...some of you guys get so personal and uptight.

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Old 05-11-2013, 05:40 PM
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Hey Rom....just for the record....who is the idiot...this is all fun stuff...some of you guys get so personal and uptight.

CHEERS TOM
I am inclined to disagree....not fun, especially when kids start to believe the BS.

I did a short presentation to around 90 Grade 3's last Friday. When it was finished I opened the floor to questions. Two of the kids asked about the end of the world via planet whatever and Comet Ison.
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Old 05-11-2013, 06:06 PM
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Hi Stu...maybe you need to teach your pupils how to discriminate between the B.S...well me I have 2 applied science degrees....and I stand by my original comments....this is all fun stuff...have a great day.

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Old 05-11-2013, 06:12 PM
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Hey Rom....just for the record....who is the idiot...this is all fun stuff...some of you guys get so personal and uptight.

CHEERS TOM
That's the problem, Tom, it's not all fun stuff. People hear this crap and believe it, then when you try to correct them with the proper knowledge, they get up on their high horses and get defensive about it. Or, they try and rationalise it and they just don't have the background to do so. It's bad enough with adults falling for rubbish like this but it's the kids you have to worry about.

It's nothing more than snake oil pseudoscience these fools go about sprouting. Yet they pass it off as legitimate science and fool far too many people. They give anything science a bad name and when those that actually know something about it try to explain things, we're the ones that cop the flak from the public, or are just ignored. People want to remember that if it wasn't for those few that understand science, the rest of them would still be living in caves.
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Old 05-11-2013, 06:14 PM
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Hi Stu...maybe you need to teach your pupils how to discriminate between the B.S...well me I have 2 applied science degrees....and I stand by my original comments....this is all fun stuff...have a great day.

Cheers Tom
Well, at least you've been taught to filter the BS. Most people haven't.

What fields are your degrees in?
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Old 05-11-2013, 06:39 PM
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Hi Carl..I have a degree in Surveying and a degree in Building Surveying and also a Grad Cert in Fire Engineering.....due to the Surveying Degree in my youth got interested in Astronomy.

Members should be able to make general comments without the WRATH OF KANN coming down on them....might get less submissions.

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Old 05-11-2013, 06:48 PM
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Yep
I have just got a picture of mars. Look at that graze!
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