Wally Anglesea wrote:

"Mad Scientist" wrote in message
le.rogers.com...

Hubble gave us the concept of a 'galaxy' being like the Milky Way. (even
though Messier catalogued the Andromeda galaxy before him) Hubble then
'proved' that all galaxies are moving away from us, even though a team of
astronomers worked together with him, and the fact that Andromeda is
headed for a collision with the Milky Way disproves his main theory.



Not at all. The Magellenic clouds, for instance are gravitationally bound to
our own Milky Way.
Plenty of pictures abound showing galaxies interacting.

However, AS HAS ALREADY BEEN SHOWN TO YOU, the large scale expansion of the
universe is correct.

SNIP, as everything following was a fallacy)



Wally,

How could you not comment on the funniest bit in there! It was
the first I'd heard that Hoyle had worked out the math for the
Big Bang, being as he was a great proponent of it. ;-)

This is one of the big reasons not to try to killfile MS.
Every once in a while, we are gifted with a post like this. Is
anyone's life so full of joy and humor that something like MS's
latest missive can be ignored?

And then there's the business about Messier cataloging the
Andromeda Galaxy before Hubble. Except, of course, Messier had
no idea of galaxies, and recorded M31 solely as a nuisance,
since it got in the way of his comet-hunting.

Oh, and... But perhaps one ought read his post oneself. Far
more jollies to be had that way.

--
Tom McDonald