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07/29/2010 03:52 PM
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Megameter chasm on an icy moon
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I know I haven’t been posting much astronomy the past few days — Comic Con, w00tstock, and "Bad Universe" have kept me hopping — so to make up for it a little bit, here’s a lovely image sent back a billion kilometers from Cassini:
This is Tethys, an ice moon of Saturn. The angle of Cassini, [...]
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07/29/2010 02:00 PM
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Flushed with pareidolia
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Pareidolia is the psychology term for seeing faces in random patterns. This usually gets air time due to some vaguely Christlike shape in a stain or something, but not every instance has to be religiously motivated. I don’t want to ignore those secular ones, because, after all, I hate to let anything go to waste.
Behold!
This [...]
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07/29/2010 09:00 AM
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Lunar triple sunset
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I never get tired of the stunning pictures being sent to Earth from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. This one is particularly cool:
It’s a little weird, isn’t it? What you’re seeing is sunset over some mountains on the Moon, with only the peaks popping up into the sunlight. It might help to pull back a bit:
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07/28/2010 05:01 PM
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AVN now routinely getting publicly humiliated
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The Australian Vaccination Network, an antivax organization fronted by Meryl Dorey, has long been an antiscience group devoted to spreading any kind of nonsensical rhetoric they can. The good news? Now they’re being called out on it.
As The Sceptic’s Book of Poo-Poo extensively documents, the media used to be pretty easy on the AVN, but [...]
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07/28/2010 02:05 PM
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Bad Astronomy is still surly
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As I wrote about recently, I have teamed up with Skepchick Surly Amy to raise money for the American Cancer Society: she has created 200 lovely hand-made ceramic Bad Astronomy pendant necklaces, and for each one she sells for $20 she’s donating $10 to the ACS. Each one is different, so check them all out!
Over [...]
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07/28/2010 09:00 AM
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w00tstock video
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I just found out that video of my talk at w00tstock has been posted on YouTube. The quality is a little shaky, since it was a handheld video taken from a distance back, so some of the pictures may be hard to discern, but I think it suffices to get the point across.
This may surprise [...]
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07/27/2010 06:00 PM
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Green Lantern inspires a kid at Comic Con
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I was a big Green Lantern fan when I was a kid. It may have been my favorite comic book, and I used to sneak into my brother’s room and read every issue he got.
I’m a grownup now, more or less, but sometimes those comic book heroes still get to me. At Comic Con [...]
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