More BS: World Meteorological Organization Flunks History JunkScience.com, December 18, 2007 "The World Meteorological Organization says 2007 is shaping up...

Here is a Ph.D. chemist who moderates Reddit's science forum on why they banned climate change deniers. He describes them very accurately. "After some time...

What's the name of the phenomenon that causes the sun to continue to rise later, even though the winter solstice has passed? TIA.

On 7/12/2014 10:21 AM, Chris L Peterson wrote: No, that's not true. My ideal is that everyone live under the conditions that best suit their own...

GPS-equipped scopes that Goto any object with no effort, some even "talk" to you, let you run them with your smartphone. Now, we know a lot of companies...

Paris has rules against shop lights from 1-5am to deal with light pollution and energy waste. So of course, someone had to try to go around the...

I remember back in the 1990s they were using computers with spare processing power to analyze signals to look for extraterrestrial life. I read the Drake...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ap-ug/message/23221 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ap-ug/message/23222 Very exciting times. Good Luck, Roland. Ed T.

An example of light speed is that if you are in a speeding car and throw out a ball, the ball is going as fast as you throw it plus the speed of the car, but...

Hi, I'm thinking of getting a telescope so that it'd allow me to observe Jupiter, and its moons.. Saturn.. Venus etc. Should NexStar 80 or Firstscope 76 suit...

some company are advertising this type of binoculars for $199 to $259.00 are this any good??? comments would be appreciated, while these binocs are not...

NASA's images of Mars are the wrong color NASA has had to admit that the colours are wrong in most of the images of Mars taken by their latest...

VW is planning to sell 20% of their vehicles as pure electrics by 2020. Here is one from their Porsche brand:...

Hello all, Montreal celebrates its 375th birthday next year (and Canada its 150th). One of the celebratory planned projects is to illuminate the Jacques...

Looks like the astro retailers are once again playing the role of The Grinch this year. TMT

On May 17, 2:41*pm, 1treePetrifiedForestLane wrote: I'm going to see if I can figure out, how it is that the googolplex gets items...

hello, i consider to buy an C9.25 but after reading the ciel et espce article?? i have a little...

Ok, so magnificiation is focal length of the telescope divided by the width of the eyepiece. What about when there is no eyepiece? My refractor has some...

The email address i use for usenet posting just got flooded this morning = with 72 bogus worm/virus emails. S.a.a is one of the very few newsgroups = i post...

I just saw the movie 'Down with Love'. The story is supposed to be set in the early 60's. There's a scene with what looks like a vintage Celestron-8 including...