Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science |
Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science |
Jan 8 2007, 07:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
I have just watched the BBC's report on the newly created 3D map of dark matter using Hubble data; and it made my heart sink.
I applaud the BBC for giving airtime to such discoveries, but for such a respected organisation their research was awful. It's no wonder the vast majority of people are either bewildered or disinterested the the universe as a whole when the facts they are given are completely wrong. It's a shame that tonight 60 million or so people in the UK and many other people around the world were told Hubble shone a beam of light out into the depths of the universe and studied how it was bent by the gravity of dark matter billions of light years away! And this was a report from the BBCs science correspondant! I remain downhearted that perhaps the most important story of the week was reported in such a shoddy manner. Does anyone else feel space is being let down by TV coverage? -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
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Jun 22 2009, 12:55 PM
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Jun 22 2009, 02:15 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
What's wrong with that article? I've seen far, far more inaccurate articles than this one. In layman's terms NASA really is going to bomb the moon. What else do you call dropping a high energy object on a target? And what is a "missile" other than a guided projectile? Seing how the Centaur stage is both a rocket stage and will be guided into a crater of interest fits that definition.
The only thing possibly incorrect is the claimed detection of oxygen at the poles. I may be wrong, but I thought only hydrogen was detected and only by inferrence that it's in water ice form do you get oxygen. -------------------- |
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Jun 22 2009, 10:21 PM
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