Chandra 'Hears' A Black Hole

In article , Matt
wrote:

Well, sound waves are just longitudinal pressure waves through a
medium, yes? In a sense, what this black hole is throwing out could be
seen as such (as the original article stated, "ripples in the gas
filling the cluster")... though a period of 19.6 million years seems to
stretch the idea of "sound" to the breaking point. -=shrug=-

If a black hole made a sound in the universe, and no one could ever
hear it, did it really make a sound....WOW....Deep dude!

I agree though. I think this is NASA's attempt once again to stretch
the truth to get headlines. The latest Astronomy has an interview with
the Professor of Physics at Columibia (if I recall correctly). He
complains of the same thing. I've got five bucks that at my clubs
public star party on Sat I am going to have to explain this to at
least one member of the public who know believes that a black hole is
playing Jimi Hendrix tunes from the other end of the universe. Oh
well, at least it gets science some attention.

Matt

Wrong. It is getting attention for pseudoscience and every day making
pseudoscience more and more legitmate (in the eyes of the fooled
public). NASA's shameless attempts at headline production by these
'discoveries' do nothing short of dishonoring what science should be
all about.

CC

Wrong. It is getting attention for pseudoscience and every day making
pseudoscience more and more legitmate (in the eyes of the fooled
public). NASA's shameless attempts at headline production by these
'discoveries' do nothing short of dishonoring what science should be
all about.

CC

What do you expect? The agency was at first staffed by White rocket
scientists, and it achieved near-miracles, extending the reach of manned
spaceflight from low earth orbit to the moon. Then NASA became
"bureaucritized." Its successes and the political situation (the US/USSR
competition) made spaceflight a symbol of political and military excellence,
and every politician in Congress wanted to put his finger into NASA's pie.
Of course, things started going wrong.

Then NASA became subject to Equal Opportunity (i.e. Reverse Discrimination)
laws. Blacks began to appear front of the TV cameras as "spokesmen" for any
space missions that were not (so far) having any trouble. During the
televised Mars Pathfinder mission, JPL set some of these porch-monkeys at
stage-center for one of their room monitors. The Blacks knew when their
camera was live: they'd start pointing at this or that, and nodding their
heads sagely, and at least twice, while the broadcast was being fed from a
different camera, one of them was shown crossing the field-of-view carrying
"papers," which presumably were critical papers whose carrying importantly
needed to be done.

So the dog-and-pony sideshowism in which NASA is engaging isn't a new
phenomenon; it's merely a continuation of a bad trend that began in the late
1960s.

Jerry Abbott

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What do you expect? The agency was at first staffed by White rocket
scientists, and it achieved near-miracles, extending the reach of manned
spaceflight from low earth orbit to the moon. Then NASA became
"bureaucritized." Its successes and the political situation (the US/USSR
competition) made spaceflight a symbol of political and military
excellence,
and every politician in Congress wanted to put his finger into NASA's pie.
Of course, things started going wrong.

Then NASA became subject to Equal Opportunity (i.e. Reverse
Discrimination)
laws. Blacks began to appear front of the TV cameras as "spokesmen" for
any
space missions that were not (so far) having any trouble. During the
televised Mars Pathfinder mission, JPL set some of these porch-monkeys at
stage-center for one of their room monitors. The Blacks knew when their
camera was live: they'd start pointing at this or that, and nodding their
heads sagely, and at least twice, while the broadcast was being fed from a
different camera, one of them was shown crossing the field-of-view
carrying
"papers," which presumably were critical papers whose carrying importantly
needed to be done.

So the dog-and-pony sideshowism in which NASA is engaging isn't a new
phenomenon; it's merely a continuation of a bad trend that began in the
late
1960s.

Jerry Abbott



So Jerry... How long have you been a KKK member?

What do you expect? The agency was at first staffed by White rocket
scientists, and it achieved near-miracles, extending the reach of manned
spaceflight from low earth orbit to the moon. Then NASA became
"bureaucritized." Its successes and the political situation (the
US/USSR
competition) made spaceflight a symbol of political and military
excellence,
and every politician in Congress wanted to put his finger into NASA's
pie.
Of course, things started going wrong.

Then NASA became subject to Equal Opportunity (i.e. Reverse
Discrimination)
laws. Blacks began to appear front of the TV cameras as "spokesmen" for
any
space missions that were not (so far) having any trouble. During the
televised Mars Pathfinder mission, JPL set some of these porch-monkeys
at
stage-center for one of their room monitors. The Blacks knew when their
camera was live: they'd start pointing at this or that, and nodding
their
heads sagely, and at least twice, while the broadcast was being fed from
a
different camera, one of them was shown crossing the field-of-view
carrying
"papers," which presumably were critical papers whose carrying
importantly
needed to be done.

So the dog-and-pony sideshowism in which NASA is engaging isn't a new
phenomenon; it's merely a continuation of a bad trend that began in the
late
1960s.

Jerry Abbott



So Jerry... How long have you been a KKK member?

I never had membership in the KKK. I worked for the National Alliance for
five years, but now I'm back into freelance racial activism.

One of my projects is the creation of a celestial mechanics tutorial
website, whose beginning you can find at

http://www.jabpage.org/posts/transca.html
(under construction)

Jerry Abbott