"It's a First in the Solar System!"
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Mysterious Spot Seen on Saturn
Astronomers are Puzzled
It's a First in the Solar System
Those are the headlines from an aol.news story this morning. I'm not even
going to read it, I'm just going to comment on the humor of the idea that
astronomers would say that anything they've seen in the VERY short time they'be been
looking would be "a first in the solar system."
Astronomy is pretty new.
The amount of time Earth scientists have been studying is infintessimal in
"solar system" time. Almost infintessimal in geological time.
I am likewise amused by the hole in the ozone. The sky is falling off!!
HOW long have people even thought there WAS an ozone, and they consider
themselves experts in the geological history of the ozone? It would be like
someone studying sea level "in great depth" one morning at 11:00 and then freaking
out TOTALLY at the tide coming in or going out, and predicting the end of the
world.
And global warming...
Isn't it the same scientists who KNOW for certain there have been ice ages
large and small on earth, that that is a natural state of the earth, to cool and
warm, and that it's been going on since before there were humans, and yet (as
with the probably origins of some religions and superstitions and practices)
some seem positive that humans have sinned and that's causing the earth to
heat up?
What sins did the dinosaurs commit to cause the world to get colder?
What wonderful service to God did prehistoric man perform to cause the ice to
recede?
There was a "mini ice age" within the past thousand years. No doubt the
Catholics could explain that.
It's been theorized that the whole sun-worshipping set of religions came
about from people thinking they had helped the earth warm up again. When God's
in the sky and darkness is equated with punishment and evil, there is some sun
worship going on (anthropologically speaking).
So...
A first in the solar system.
You heard it on the internet in 2005.
Sandra
Astronomers are Puzzled
It's a First in the Solar System
Those are the headlines from an aol.news story this morning. I'm not even
going to read it, I'm just going to comment on the humor of the idea that
astronomers would say that anything they've seen in the VERY short time they'be been
looking would be "a first in the solar system."
Astronomy is pretty new.
The amount of time Earth scientists have been studying is infintessimal in
"solar system" time. Almost infintessimal in geological time.
I am likewise amused by the hole in the ozone. The sky is falling off!!
HOW long have people even thought there WAS an ozone, and they consider
themselves experts in the geological history of the ozone? It would be like
someone studying sea level "in great depth" one morning at 11:00 and then freaking
out TOTALLY at the tide coming in or going out, and predicting the end of the
world.
And global warming...
Isn't it the same scientists who KNOW for certain there have been ice ages
large and small on earth, that that is a natural state of the earth, to cool and
warm, and that it's been going on since before there were humans, and yet (as
with the probably origins of some religions and superstitions and practices)
some seem positive that humans have sinned and that's causing the earth to
heat up?
What sins did the dinosaurs commit to cause the world to get colder?
What wonderful service to God did prehistoric man perform to cause the ice to
recede?
There was a "mini ice age" within the past thousand years. No doubt the
Catholics could explain that.
It's been theorized that the whole sun-worshipping set of religions came
about from people thinking they had helped the earth warm up again. When God's
in the sky and darkness is equated with punishment and evil, there is some sun
worship going on (anthropologically speaking).
So...
A first in the solar system.
You heard it on the internet in 2005.
Sandra
jimpetersonl
A first in 10,000 years! Grass growing in Antarctica!
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11789045%255E30417,00.html
(How do they know? Who's been tracking all this time?)
Maybe polar bears are sinful.
~Sue
the idea that > astronomers would say that anything they've seen in
the VERY short time they'be been > looking would be "a first in the
solar system."
geological time.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11789045%255E30417,00.html
(How do they know? Who's been tracking all this time?)
Maybe polar bears are sinful.
~Sue
> Mysterious Spot Seen on Saturnnot even > going to read it, I'm just going to comment on the humor of
> Astronomers are Puzzled
> It's a First in the Solar System
>
>
> Those are the headlines from an aol.news story this morning. I'm
the idea that > astronomers would say that anything they've seen in
the VERY short time they'be been > looking would be "a first in the
solar system."
>infintessimal in > "solar system" time. Almost infintessimal in
> Astronomy is pretty new.
> The amount of time Earth scientists have been studying is
geological time.
>
> I am likewise amused by the hole in the ozone. The sky is falling off!!
> So...
> A first in the solar system.
> You heard it on the internet in 2005.
>
>
> Sandra