Ten crisp points for a breakdown of what's dodgy about this report!
(Mind you, might be quicker to list what they got right!)
http://www.wetaskiwintimes.com/News/260939.html
2006-10-17 03:30:29 · 8 answers · asked by Avondrow 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I gots to get me some of what that guy was smoking/ drinking/ eating/ whatever. I haven't heard such utter drivel since . . . um . . . yesterday, when we had yet another looney tunes on here claiming that the moon landings were a hoax, and that the attacks on the World Trade Center were orchestrated by the CIA, and that Elvis is alive and well in Las Vegas.
How in the world is a 35mm camera on a tripod in a backyard is Sasketchewan going to prove there's an atmosphere on the moon? What a lulu!
2006-10-17 05:12:00 · answer #1 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's hard to tell if they got anything right.
The "photo" looks like an abstract oil painting. It might be a picture of a lunar eclipse photographed with a digital camera (not set up quite right) through light cloud cover, but the foreground object looks fake, perhaps Photoshopped.
All conclusions drawn from the photo are fantasy.
2006-10-17 04:49:02 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well for a start there is a lunar and solar eclipse every year - in some cases more than one and as for a planetary alignment - I assume that he means that all the planets are in a line with the sun - that's not going to happen in my life time and even if it did the gravitational effects would be... lets see oh yes zero.
2006-10-17 08:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Mark G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, I wouldn't dispute Olsen's photo. I saw the same thing.... in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. That must be proof of an atmosphere on the moon. I've seen Bugs Bunny on the moon breathing and talking... so there must be air there. And a Lunar eclipse only happens every 120 years....wow... thay makes me over 900 years old.
2006-10-17 05:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first thing that's wrong is calling this halfwit an astronomer. It pretty much goes downhill from there.
2006-10-17 07:22:38 · answer #5 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh. My. God.
How stupid can people get?
Wait, don't answer that, I don't want to know!!!!
I don't suppose anyone has written to their editor, telling them to do a little more fact-checking next time?
2006-10-17 04:16:35 · answer #6 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that photo looks like a vapour trail with a photoshopped blob on it
2006-10-17 03:41:27 · answer #7 · answered by jmather62 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They got nothing right!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-17 03:45:54 · answer #8 · answered by jeff g 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋