Mars smoke screen?

[Shark Bait (Stu)]

Originally Posted by Capricorn1(Tom)

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

I do understand that some of these cranks can be good for a laugh. Sometimes, during public astronomy nights there can be one or two who try to get you to agree to their version of 'reality'. I suppose it is a good chance to challenge a few myths.

I was only a guest at the school and the subject was restricted to how our Sun, Earth and Moon interact. Just the basics. I am not a Teacher but was asked to assist using some planetarium software. On the whole, I think most of the kids already had a decent BS filter.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

There was another video linked on the initial page cited at the beginning of the thread.
A Reverend 'someone or other' talking authoritatively (as they do) about how ISON had swept up a whole host of asteroid material from the asteroid belt as it passed through and it is now trailing all that along with it. And the Earth is going to spend 15 days being bombarded as we plow through the tail of ISON with all this asteroidal matter in mid December.
And something to do with the 'First Horseman of the Apocalypse'.
She is obviously preaching to the converted but, converted to what? Idiots?

Wonder if she would run screaming to her fallout shelter if someone told her there were more than one comet in the skies.

[Pinwheel (Doug)]

Originally Posted by Regulus

There was another video linked on the initial page cited at the beginning of the thread.
A Reverend 'someone or other' talking authoritatively (as they do) about how ISON had swept up a whole host of asteroid material from the asteroid belt as it passed through and it is now trailing all that along with it. And the Earth is going to spend 15 days being bombarded as we plow through the tail of ISON with all this asteroidal matter in mid December.
And something to do with the 'First Horseman of the Apocalypse'.
She is obviously preaching to the converted but, converted to what? Idiots?

Wonder if she would run screaming to her fallout shelter if someone told her there were more than one comet in the skies.

That's It i'm leaving. I've warmed up my flying saucer & I'm going somewhere safer.......

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

Back to the original ( pathetic ) video , he says C8 without eyepiece , so he is working at 2000mm , then its zoomed in 600x !. no wonder it looks like a BLOB , I recon he even shot it thru a closed window looking at the bad CA in the zoomed images ,, basic stuff .
I believe the man/woman? is just another one looking for attention , as said .
Does astronomy no favours and should sell the scope to someone who knows how to use it properly and take up gardening or something .
Brian .

[icytailmark (Mark)]

i see so many of these videos on youtube. The world has gone