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Chippewa
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 Posted - 02/07/2002 : 17:07:05 [Permalink]
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The Bad Astronomer wrote:
Ah, but that's the same reason it looks orange when rising or setting. During a lunar eclipse, the sunlight hitting the Moon is passing through the thickest layers of the Earth's atmosphere. The blue, green and even yellow light is scattered away, leaving only orange and red to illuminate the Moon. Standing on the Moon, it would look to you as if the Sun were peeking around the circular shape of the Earth, just like at sunrise or sunset.
Ah yes. And if we were standing there on the lunar surface during the event, since the moon has next to no atmosphere, the lunar sky would remain black, the earth and sun would appear as you described (or perhaps as a dazzling ring of light during lunar totality?) and the lunar ground to our eyes would perhaps turn reddish or pink?
Even though there's no "dust" floating around on the moon to absorb shorter lightwaves, the longer waves have already made it around the earth's atmosphere, proceeded through the vacuum of space and are the strongest to strike the moon during the eclipse. Or am I way off? Just wondering.
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/09/2002 : 18:56:27 [Permalink]
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Hmmm... I've been having a lot of trouble with the BABB over the last couple-three days... Cannot Find Server errors, or long delays when calling up a new page, sometimes eventually timing out without results.
Anybody else getting this?
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 02/09/2002 : 19:23:18 [Permalink]
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Donnie: BABB has been unavailable to me all this evening...but I was able to read it earlier today.
Could just be a temporary server problem.
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The Bad Astronomer
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/11/2002 : 13:04:55 [Permalink]
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Folks-
Yes, there have been server problems, but hopefully things are better now. A new computer will be installed this week which should solve everything too.
Now, I have a favor to ask y'all. We have someone posting infantile things to the BABB. You may have seen them: first he posted under the name "hammytrimmytree" and then "anusanus12". You can guess how sophisticated this person is. Anyway, I have deleted the posts (all about poopy, how droll) and tried to restrict the user names used. I have also contacted the ISPs involved.
However, this person can simply keep changing names and posting. There is little I can do about that. My board software is predicated on the idea that people will be adults. So: if any of you see this guy posting, I'd appreciate it if you'd please send me an email (NOT a private message, as I rarely check those). It's hard for me to patrol the whole board all the time.
Thanks!
-Phil
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Donnie B.
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Posted - 02/11/2002 : 13:11:25 [Permalink]
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Right, the BABB Safety Patrol is on the job!
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 02/11/2002 : 20:58:29 [Permalink]
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Shall do, BA
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2002 : 12:45:35 [Permalink]
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I find that rather insulting to 8 year olds most places considering 8 year olds have more sense than these turkeys show.
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Zandermann
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2002 : 19:22:03 [Permalink]
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point taken
On the chance that anyone thought I was being serious, I apologize to any 8-year-olds reading this thread.
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Dog_Ed
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 02/16/2002 : 22:59:06 [Permalink]
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I see that Alan Marshall, a big fan of John Newman and his energy machines, is also back--I've argued with him elsewhere, and like any True Believer he is oblivious to logic and evidence. It's a waste of time to debate him, unless you have points you want to explain to 3rd parties.
"Even Einstein put his foot in it sometimes"
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/19/2002 : 16:36:36 [Permalink]
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Well since this is the "bitch board" -- I find it slightly annoying that some BABB posters are currently sending greetings to their pal and mentor "JW" on the new BABB. I'm not loosing sleep over it, just find it slightly ludicrous. I guess they don't know or forgot the reason he was banned. (Not because of his ideas or beliefs, but because of name calling and extraordinary rudeness.) I'm being petty here but hey - a diverse group of us were literally hounded on the old BB for not explaining the universe clearly enough for him or on his terms. He could of course post on the new BABB under a new name, though I don't see how he'd restrain himself from insulting people. He's on other boards now still ranting against Einstein and the "scientific establishment" whom he feels are afraid of a religious interpretation of the universe. Good riddance! I really think the new BB is fun, even the loonies tend to be at least civil.
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The Bad Astronomer
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 02/19/2002 : 17:19:30 [Permalink]
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Grapes of Wrath put in a link to thread on another board with JW, but a search on "JW" on my board didn't yield anything interesting that I saw. Do you have a specific link?
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2002 : 17:42:44 [Permalink]
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Grapes of Wrath put in a link to thread on another board with JW, but a search on "JW" on my board didn't yield anything interesting that I saw. Do you have a specific link?
Here's a BB from England with recent posts.
From the same board comes this gem. I like the part about college boys learning relativity only to "impress girls." Well, of course. What other reason is there to study physics? (BTW: The female science majors I met in my college days understood SR more clearly than I did.) ;-)
"Speaking without thinking like shooting without aiming." - Charlie Chan
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Megan
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2002 : 19:01:51 [Permalink]
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Congrats Phil on publishing your new book!!! I'll have to see if I can steal it from Lisa for a sneak peak!! 
No bragging Lisa
~Megan~
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Lisa
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 03/04/2002 : 19:57:50 [Permalink]
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Congrats Phil on publishing your new book!!! I'll have to see if I can steal it from Lisa for a sneak peak!!
No bragging Lisa
Don't worry Megan, you'll have the book soon after I do. I can average about a book a day. Now, we just have to wait for Borders to deliver. If the human pez dispensers down there got the order right, I should have it by the end of the week.
Lisa
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The Bad Astronomer
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 03/05/2002 : 12:44:34 [Permalink]
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Heehee. Thanks! This isn't exactly War and Peace we're talking here. You can read a few chapters a day pretty easily. But Lisa, you should take your time and savor the book. ;-)
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