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Astronomy Buff

Archive for the ‘skewed perspective’ Category

April 30th, 2007

I Want a Sky Shed!

So I’m reading my emails from SkyTonight that are sent to me every Friday and I see an article on this REALLY COOL backyard observatory.
For about $1,550 plus shipping, I can get this enclosure that will not only protect my equipment and let me leave it set up all the time, but it’ll really make […]

By Tony -- 3 comments

April 18th, 2007

Virginia Tech, AstroProf and Morality

AstroProf has just written a very thoughtful and heartfelt post about the incident at Virginia Tech. I’ve come to really appreciate his thoughts and writings, his blog is of the highest quality, full of original posts from the mind of a critical thinker with deep convictions.
If he presents ideas in the classroom anywhere near […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

April 1st, 2007

‘Bible Codes’ Predict A Comet Will Smash into us in 2012

I actually think this post is appropriate for April 1st because this seems like a big joke to me, but perhaps my readers know more about this than I do.
I love the History Channel, most of my TV watching occurs on that channel or the science channel. Today, I stumbled in this show (don’t […]

By Tony -- 22 comments

March 30th, 2007

Why You Need a Telescope

I cannot remember a time in my life when I didn’t have a telescope. Since childhood, from a time before my earliest memories, there has been some kind of telescope in my possession.
I looked at the moon incessantly during the Apollo program in the 1960’s and 1970’s, I had many craters and mountain ranges […]

By Tony -- 0 comments

March 6th, 2007

Are We Hard-Wired to Believe in God?

OK, wow. I was just posting about how I believe our brains have lots of evolutionary baggage when it is forced to accept new beliefs.
I was just reading this New York Times article on current research that is trying to find out if our brains are wired (by evolution) in specific ways that predispose […]

By Tony -- 5 comments