Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science |
Inaccuracy in reporting astronomy and science |
Sep 30 2011, 10:58 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 593 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 279 |
Sounds like their source material dates back to '65 or so.
Andy |
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Jan 28 2012, 10:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
According to this article, Eros will be 'hurtling past' Earth on Tuesday next week.
Closest approach will actually be ~27 million km. |
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Jan 29 2012, 04:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Only 27 million miles! Why that's nearly 3/4 of the distance that the planet Venus "hurtles" past Earth every now and then! I hope someone is also working on a plan to blast Venus into tiny pieces.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jan 29 2012, 04:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
According to this article, Eros will be 'hurtling past' Earth on Tuesday next week. That should be: "According to this headline..."The article itself states, "...a chunk of rock 400 times the City of London is set to hurtle closer than a rock of its size has in a very long time." I take this to be a factual statement albeit vividly expressed. (Sorry, no offense meant to the poster, but one of my pet peeves is condemning an article for language used in the headline.) |
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Jan 30 2012, 01:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
None taken!
It's a fair point, the body text does qualify the headline somewhat, it just made me smile. Eros will be 'hurtling past' Earth in a similar way to how I'll be 'hurtling past' the Eiffel tower later this week when I drive up the motorway into London |
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Aug 4 2012, 12:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
The Washington Post has announced that MSL has landed successfully.
Phew! What a relief!................WAIT! WHAT?! Yep, they had even prepared a video for it, which has now been taken offline. NASA's Curiosity Rover Successfully Touches Down On Mars http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/hea...810f_video.html |
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Aug 6 2012, 10:21 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 442 |
Strange reporting in one online success announcement:
QUOTE In the final moments, the spacecraft accelerated with the pull of gravity as it neared Mars's atmosphere, making a fiery entry at a speed of 21,240km per hour and then slowing down with the help of a supersonic parachute. (Emphasis mine)After that, an elaborate sky crane powered by rocket blasters kicked in, and the rover was lowered down by nylon tethers, apparently landing upright on all six wheels. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8511758/n...s-rover-on-mars |
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Aug 6 2012, 01:54 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I wouldn't call it inaccurate. In fact, that's not bad at all from a media outlet that (I assume) is not primarily presented in the English language.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 6 2012, 02:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 |
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Aug 11 2012, 10:30 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Oh, this is beautiful. Just heard a local newscaster on NBC Los Angeles do a story on MSL describing the FSW upgrade.
Went fine, until he said something like 'Oh, by the way! The average celphone on Earth has a faster processor than Curiosity! The reason why is that technology on Earth has been advancing as Curiosity traveled 154 million miles to Mars!' Gonna call the station and complain; this was just egregious. Considering that this is one of the local stations for Pasadena & therefore JPL, I hope I won't be the only one. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Aug 12 2012, 12:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1583 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Went off the rails with "the reason why..."
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Sep 11 2012, 11:09 AM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
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Sep 11 2012, 11:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Ooof! The comments thread gallery agrees. -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Sep 11 2012, 01:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Egads! I mean, I know there is a movement out there to try and put down anyone with intelligence and an education (for reasons forum rules won't let me get into), but to let these kinds of comments about people smart enough to land spacecraft on other planets into media reporting on the space program is just plain wrong.
Can you imagine if CBS News, in 1969, felt it had to "counter-balance" Walter Cronkite's enthusiastic reporting on the space program with Ricky Redneck's comments on how we shouldn't let these gul-durned eggheads control everything? I never thought the future would really bring us into the age of the Marching Morons. I'm disappointed to see I was wrong. Which does bring up the concept of using the space program to directly attack the problem -- you know, let everyone know about all those wonderful colonization opportunities on Venus, for example... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 11 2012, 07:40 PM
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Member Group: Admin Posts: 976 Joined: 29-September 06 From: Pasadena, CA - USA Member No.: 1200 |
I see people against space exploration fundamentally divided into two groups: a) people who have a different agenda, b ) people who do not understand space exploration. I view group b ) as the equivalent of an "electrical impedance matching" problem. That is, I need to find a common ground so that I can bring space exploration to their area of interest. I rarely succeed in doing so, but in those rare moments where I am successful I know I have reduced group b ) and removed power to group a).
Paolo -------------------- Disclaimer: all opinions, ideas and information included here are my own,and should not be intended to represent opinion or policy of my employer.
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