Originally posted by SoothfastI guess you can consider yourself put down now, Adam!
I'd no more care to elaborate on the matter than I'd care to explain the quadratic formula in a differential equations class.
Hey Soothfast, what part of Pa you live in? I am north of Allentown, southern Pocono's.
Originally posted by Metal BrainSomething like one inch per year, something like a mile further away every 50,000 odd years, so 1000 miles further in 50 million years, 10,000 miles further in 500 million years and 100,000 miles further in 5 billion years so we don't have a lot to worry about losing the moon🙂
I watched it today and learned how tidal friction is pushing the moons orbit farther from the earth.
http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~crawford/PSG/PSG11/204_97_L11.9_tidfric.html
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=124
We'll lose the SUN before we lose the moon....
Originally posted by sonhouseI'm not sure why any of that matters. I was just sharing something I thought was interesting.
Something like one inch per year, something like a mile further away every 50,000 odd years, so 1000 miles further in 50 million years, 10,000 miles further in 500 million years and 100,000 miles further in 5 billion years so we don't have a lot to worry about losing the moon🙂
We'll lose the SUN before we lose the moon....
I too finally watched it today. I had recorded it earlier. I loved the show. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson; follow him on Facebook and many other physicists/astronomers.
Tyson almost choked up talking about how he met Sagan at the end of the show. I wish I could've met Sagan. Maybe one day I can meet Tyson...
Originally posted by woodypusherHere is an article about what Tyson got wrong (maybe it was just his writers):
I too finally watched it today. I had recorded it earlier. I loved the show. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson; follow him on Facebook and many other physicists/astronomers.
Tyson almost choked up talking about how he met Sagan at the end of the show. I wish I could've met Sagan. Maybe one day I can meet Tyson...
http://thefederalist.com/2014/03/13/five-things-neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-gets-wrong/
I don't agree with all five, especially the last one where he thinks Tyson was saying the age of the universe is one year. He never said anything like that.
He must not have heard the part where Tyson says, IF we made the age of the universe as one year, this analogy stands:
Originally posted by sonhouseTyson said if we compressed the age of the universe to a one-year scale, we could show when everything appeared in relative terms.
Here is an article about what Tyson got wrong (maybe it was just his writers):
http://thefederalist.com/2014/03/13/five-things-neil-degrasse-tysons-cosmos-gets-wrong/
I don't agree with all five, especially the last one where he thinks Tyson was saying the age of the universe is one year. He never said anything like that.
He must not have heard the part where Tyson says, IF we made the age of the universe as one year, this analogy stands:
The "federalist" is an idiot. He seems to think he's smarter than everyone else on every subject. If we could somehow harness the energy from this windbag, we could solve the world's energy problems.
Originally posted by woodypusherThe windbag also made this whopper of a statement:
Tyson said if we compressed the age of the universe to a one-year scale, we could show when everything appeared in relative terms.
The "federalist" is an idiot. He seems to think he's smarter than everyone else on every subject. If we could somehow harness the energy from this windbag, we could solve the world's energy problems.
America leads the world in adult science literacy.
Wow. Really? I don't think so.
Just because I love being a gadfly:
1 - A little bit of real history about Bruno, the relationship between what is nowadays called science and medieval christian theology, heliocentrism and a Universe of plurality: http://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/cartoons-and-fables-how-cosmos-got-the-story-of-bruno-wrong/
2 - An informed critique of Bruno's segment on cosmos (but as good as the first link): http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/03/10/cosmos-pick-wrong-hero/#.Uy-AMPldXUg
3 - The reply to the link above: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/03/13/cosmos-giordano-bruno-response-steven-soter/#.Uy-DGvldXUg
My main point, I suppose, with all of this is that Cosmos (either with Sagan or with Tyson) is good in the sense that it gets people interested in science and gets people to talk about it, but it is very bad with the history of science. Both versions of the show promote a view that religion and science clash and have always clashed that is totally wrong to anyone who has had a cursory look into the real history of the matter. A history that is far more fascinating, nuanced and exciting than the usual crap of culture war that is presented.
I'll be moving along now...
