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Astronomy Buff

Archive for April 2008

April 19th, 2008

Duck and Cover

Dear Illinois,
Boy, you are just full of surprises. Your unpredictable weather: cold, cold, dreary, yucky, winter with foggy skies. Colorado is not nearly as cold as you, unless you are at high altitudes, like in the mountains. And what now, an earthquake? WTF, Illinois? […]

By Tony -- 4 comments

April 15th, 2008

Death, Taxes and the Expansion of the Universe

Death and Taxes: … by ~mibi on deviantART
DONE!  FINALLY! 
I’ve spent last weekend contaminating my trusty MacBook Pro with TurboTax and IRS webpages and now, I’ve sent the results of our hard work (my Mac and me, I tend to anthropomorphisize devices I’m a attached to) off to the government.
Paying taxes hurts, especially when you […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

April 13th, 2008

Supernova LiteBrite Explosion

Remember LiteBrite, a toy introduced in 1967 by Hasbro?
Here is the Supernova explosion process explained by SlackerAstronomy using LiteBrite as a learning tool:

“I thought that I had a solid grasp of discourse analysis, I really did. I’ve never received a mark lower than an A+ on any of the discourse analyses that I’ve written […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

April 13th, 2008

New Software: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope

I am sure most of you have heard of the Google Earth program’s Google Sky component. Well, this Spring, Microsoft will also come out with a similar Windows-only software called WorldWide Telescope.
Me, I am strictly a Mac-man so I probably won’t even personally bother using this, but the prospect of another mass-produced […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

April 13th, 2008

The Big Bang Band

I am really digging these lyrics and this video. It even has banjo! It goes to the tune of “The Green Grass Grows All Around.”
Round & Round
© Angelo Parisi
and the Big Band Band
There was a hole, in the galaxy
The blackest hole
That you ever did see.
In the middle of the hole was a singularity
And […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

April 11th, 2008

‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed!’

Ben Stein is the star of a new documentary called “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.”
Remember, Ben Stein from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” the boring high school teacher who spoke in a toad-like monotone during classroom roll call…..Bueller? Byooolerr? The documentary is about how intelligent design scientists are being silenced and shamed, how education […]

By Tony -- 1 comment

April 7th, 2008

Create Compelling Content

The secret to making money on the web isn’t all that secret.  You need to have something to say that people wanna hear, or see, or read or whatever.
Now don’t get me wrong, I make no claims that my content is compelling or in any other way worth your time.  I just spout stuff that’s […]

By Tony -- 5 comments

April 7th, 2008

Three Most Common Misconceptions About the Big Bang

The idea of an expanding and accelerating universe is a very hard one to fully visualize.  We try anyway because that’s how humans make sense of ideas; visualizing is our way of trying to understand.
Nothing is more satisfying than thinking we understand our place in the universe.  We don’t of course.  At least not yet, […]

By Tony -- 3 comments

April 5th, 2008

I love this quote.

Since I posted a post about Van Gogh a few posts down, I feel this quote is especially apt to put up here. Ha, what a great quote!!! I can totally relate to this.
“Sometimes I have a terrible need of, shall I say the word, religion. Then I go out at night and […]

By Tony -- 2 comments

April 5th, 2008

The Learn’d Astronomer

The below poem by Walt Whitman kind of makes me chuckle a bit. Much of science can seem to be dry if presented solely in the form of numbers and charts and diagrams. To a poet, it may seem kind of dry and without romance. But, really, it is all romantic. All […]

By Tony -- 0 comments